by Tanya | Nov 28, 2022 | book review, Fungi
This fabulous little publication could also be called A Guide to the Land Snails, Slugs and Semi-slugs of Australia. And yes – semi-slugs are new to me too! Land snails have a shell that enables the whole animal to tuck itself inside and seal the entrance as a...
by Tanya | Aug 21, 2021 | book review, Fungi, Wombat Forest
As we enjoy a long and stunning fungus season in our southeastern Australian forests, a new book called Wild Mushrooming by Alison Pouliot and Tom May has fruited! Local eating and wild foraging are increasing in popularity, and yet until now there have been no books...
by Tanya | Jun 20, 2020 | camera trapping, feeding signs, Fungi, marsupials, wallaby, Wombat Forest, Wombat Forestcare
It really is a wonderful fungi season in central Victoria – both the Wombat Forest and drier forests to the north are filled with an ever changing array of spectacular forms. This bounty represents the fruiting bodies of these organisms – and they also provide food...
by Tanya | Jun 29, 2019 | book review, Cosmos magazine, Fungi, Profile, science communication, Uncategorized, Wombat Forest, writing
This article is printed in Cosmos #83 Alison Pouliot has spent two decades following the fungi. Each year she moves between Australia and her adopted home near Bern, in Switzerland, studying, photographing and marvelling at the fungal hyphae – or mycelium – cycle that...
by Tanya | May 20, 2018 | citizen science, Fungi, Wombat Forestcare
In May and June, if there is enough rain, our gardens and local bushland are peppered with forms quite strange and wonderful – the sexual apparatus or fruiting bodies of fungi. Fungi are designated their own Kingdom, and their DNA is actually closer to animals than to...
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