General
Mycological
Resources on the Internet |
 The
best thing about this list of mushroom websites is how exhaustive it is,
meaning that you can find a website devoted to any aspect of fungus which
interests you; the worst thing about this list of fungus websites is how
exhaustive it is, meaning that it might take a lot of digging around to
find a website devoted to the aspect of fungus which interests you.
There's a separate listing of websites
dealing with the classification of all fungi, including lichens.
Last visited in January of 2008. |
| MykoWeb |
There
are lots of photos of American fungi here, in groups of 10 photos per page.
The navigation could be made easier - at the moment, you have to return
to the index page each time you want to get to the next group of photos.
There's also a good website
links page. |
| Fungi
Images on the Net |
This
website contains links to 1600 different fungus photos scattered across
the internet. Unfortunately, you have to know the name of the
fungus to find the photo, so it's not much good as an initial identification
guide. |
| Treasures
from the Kingdom of Fungi |
 This
website features photographs of fungi from various areas of the world,
which you have to proceed through one at a time. The fungi
are great, the photos are good but not quite big enough, but there's no
information at all about what the fungi are, where they were found or what
their life cycles are. |
Australia
| Fungimap |
 As
the authors point out, Australia has around 250,000 species of fungi and
only 20 mycologists, so there are lots of undescribed species.
The researchers who maintain this website are developing a target
list of easily identifiable Australian fungi, and when I visited in
March of 2003 this list had grown to around 100 species. This
list is in fact a photo gallery of mostly pretty cool looking fungi!
There's also an amusing list of strange
facts about fungi which explains the origin of Santa Claus, among other
things. |
Costa
Rica
| Macrofungi
of Costa Rica |
This
website has a section which has Costa Rican fungi
listed by family, unfortunately if you're try to identify a fungus
and don't know the name or family then you have to search each species
page by page. |
New
Zealand
| The
Hidden Forest |
 This
individual's private website has a huge number of fungi photos, and an
excellent identification
guide. |
| New
Zealand Fungi |
It
bills itself as the "gateway to all things fungi in New Zealand", and it
pretty much achieves its goal, containing an excellent list of links to
private, government and commercial fungus sites, as well as the extremely
good images made by the "photo fungi foray group". Last visited
in January of 2005. |
| The
New Zealand site: fungi |
This
sub-section of a larger site showing photographs of New Zealand contains
a fantastic set of photo galleries of some of New Zealand's wonderful and
colourful fungi. There are some great photos on this site,
including one of a
moth killed by fungus. |
USA
| Tom
Volk's Fungi |
Tom
Volk is a professor at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, and he
takes his teaching very seriously. His website is full of great
photos and pages
about individual fungi, with a terrific amount of interesting information
on each species, unfortunately navigating through them takes quite a while,
and I couldn't find any galleries of images of different fungi, which would
speed up the process considerably. |
| David
Work (Fiddlehead) |
This
guy isn't a fungus professional, but he has several wonderful galleries
of extremely attractive and interesting fungi. |
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