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Rare Finger-Like Fungus is Hanging on

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This Rare Finger-Like Fungus Is Hanging on For Its Life on a Small Australian Island

CARLY CASSELLA
26 JUNE 2021


www.sciencealert.com

An exceptionally rare and critically endangered fungus, known as the tea-tree fingers, is rapidly losing its grip on the Australian mainland.

Just off the coast, however, its finger-like tendrils are still clinging to life. On French Island, several kilometers from the Mornington Peninsula in the country's southeast, scientists and volunteers have now discovered the largest refuge of tea-tree fingers (Hypocreopsis amplectens) to date.

Surrounded on all sides by water, this small slice of protected bush – once the hunting ground of the Boonwurrung people – is home to what could be over one hundred fruiting bodies, more than every known individual fungus on the mainland combined.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/except...is-still-clinging-to-life-on-one-small-island
 
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