Fungi Foray - Panton Hill

Interested in learning more about Nillumbik’s amazing fungi? Curious to know more about what is happening in the soil under your feet? Learn to ID the mushrooms you see in our local parks or bushland. Join Melvin Xu, a local expert on fungi for a presentation and fungi foray walk to Bunjil reserve.

In an always popular event, join other locals in learning how to identify fungi and upload your observations to citizen science platform iNaturalist, to help build an understanding of what occurs in our local area.

Melvin is a Naturalist specializing in Fungi and their interactions with the natural world. With over 5 year of experience, he volunteers and works throughout the conservation & environmental sector from charities, non-for-profits, aspects of academia and local government. Primarily involved in activities that revolve around conservation, citizen science, education, his interests lie in the unseen world of fungi and how they fit throughout our surroundings. His particular interests in zombie fungi and orchid-fungi interactions. He continues to contribute to building volunteer groups and on ground conservations work. He’s recently helped run an annual Fungi Festival in Ballan to celebrate all things Fungi.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible event environment for all attendees. If you have accessibility or inclusion requirements regarding this event, please contact us about how we can help on environment@nillumbik.vic.gov.au

Events run and organised by the Nillumbik Shire Council environment team.  We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the Traditional Owners of the Country on which Nillumbik is located, we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future, and extend that respect to all First Nations People. We respect the enduring strength of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.