ABOUT THE WALKS
Come for a walk and learn the tools that will help you to understand the puzzle of mushroom identification, the vital roles fungi play in ecosystems and dispel the many myths surrounding these fascinating organisms.
Every mushroom walk is a new experience! Due to the ephemeral nature of fungi, you can walk the same track only days apart and your experience may be radically different. Fungi are unpredictable, surprising organisms that appear in a seemingly endless diversity of forms.
The majority of mushroom tours available locally take place in pine plantations. Partial Veil offers one of the only mushroom tours that focuses primarily on native fungi in native environments. Included with the walk is a custom-made Partial Veil booklet with notes on common species and a basic starter guide to fungi identification and ecology to help you remember information from the walk.
A selection of mushroom species and local literature on the table before our walk.Looking at a Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma sp.) fluorescing under a 365nm ultra violet torch.Jeremy introducing himself and the basics of fungi identification.A beautiful Violet Webcap (Cortinarius kiolensis) found on a walk in the Yarra Ranges.A Rooting Shank (Oudemansiella radicata) seen on one of our Spring Time fungi walks! This species has a radicating “root” at it’s base which is an important part of identification.A basket of fungal examples to show before our walk. Everyone gets a chance to look at and handle a variety of mushrooms before we head off into the forest.