Park Features

Bold Park is a regionally significant bushland located in the west metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. The park incorporates more than 400 hectares of diverse vegetation types such as eucalypt and banksia woodlands, acacia shrublands, and coastal and limestone heath. Surveys of macrofungi have been undertaken at Bold Park for the Bold Park Environmental Management Plans 2000-2005 and 2006-2011 (see also the Botanic Gardens and Parks website).

The Surveys

The paucity of knowledge about the Perth region's Fungi is highlighted by our studies at Bold Park. Virtually no fungi were recorded for the park before 1999. A maximum of 3 collecting visits to the park each year over several successive years has continued to reveal a large proportion of fungi previously unrecorded for the park. Surveys have been undertaken by Neale Bougher (1999–2008) and the PUBF Team (2004 - 2008) in some of the main representative vegetation types at Bold Park. A list of Bold Park macro fungi will be posted on this web site after completion of the current Bold Park Environmental Management Plan.

Results of Bold Park fungi surveys, 1999 to 2008

N.B. The data in the table are provisional only. The task of verifying the identity of all of the fungi surveyed so far in Bold Park is yet to be completed.