Fungi kingdom delights unlocked by Queensland’s wet summer weather

Heavy rain in parts of Queensland has awoken a hidden kingdom of fungi, and with it a passionate community of amateur mycologists.

Queensland Mycological Society president Wayne Boatwright said the wet weather was the key to some of these exotic-looking fungi species coming to the surface.

“These mycelial networks live underground and hidden away in timber and we’re completely unaware of them,” he said.

“All of a sudden when a rain event occurs the mycelial network has the resources…