Partial Veil
presents

Mushroom
Walks

with
Jeremy Hegge

 
Who is Jeremy Hegge? Jeremy Hegge (he/him) is a citizen scientist and amateur mycologist based in Naarm/Melbourne.

In 2024, Partial Veil / Jeremy ran over 150 mushroom walks across the Naarm/Melbourne area.
From 2022 to 2024, he also led walks for the Moorabool Mushroom Festival, La Trobe University Botany Society, the Friends of Royal Park and Terrain (bookstore).

Jeremy adopts a slow and researched approach to identification with a strong focus on understanding taxonomy and an interest in global foraging practices. Through this approach he has eaten dozens of mushroom species, many of which are not commonly consumed. Although he is interested in sustainable mushroom foraging, his main interest is to document and share his enthusiasm for the wonderful biodiversity of the fungal kingdom.

Many local species do not yet have names and becoming involved in their documentation as a citizen scientist is an important and exciting aspect for him.  He is an active contributor to iNaturalist with nearly 8K observations and over 14K fungi identifications.  He also helps moderate several large fungi identification groups on social media and has identified countless mushrooms over the past 5+ years.

Jeremy is a qualified Horticulturalist and has good knowledge of flora as well as fungi. He previously specialized in the revegetation of indigenous grassland and woodland flora in urban spaces. 
     
The Skyblue Pinkgill (Entoloma aff. virescens) and Jeremy in subtropical rainforest.
Webcap (Cortinarius sp.) infected with Spinellus, a funky mushroom parasite.
Discussing Agaricus identification on a walk.
Collecting specimens for DNA sequencing on Gubbi Gubbi country.
Massive coral tooth (Hericium aff. coralloides).
Photographing Kuehneromyces in Antarctic Beech forest.