Grace Boxshall is a Mycologist based in Melbourne. She spent her Masters degree researching the toxicity a mushroom which is commonly known as a yellow-staining Agaricus.

I first learnt of the research Grace was doing in 2018 when I poisoned myself with a wild Agaricus which had shown all the signs to be an edible variety. 

Grace is also a founding member of Fungi Sight, a group who catalog and study various mushroom species in Australia. 

It was great chatting with Grace about all things Agaricus, mushrooms, and I even learnt how to extract DNA in my own home!

 

Find Grace & her work via the following links:

iNaturalist - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fungisight

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fungisight/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fungi.sight/

Research Gate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amelia-Grace-Boxshall

 

Tuna Fat Podcast is recorded at the St Andrews Lounge studio on Boonwurrung country and is pays gratitude and respect to the original custodians of this land.

 

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