Tuesday 8th May AGM

Nigel Fechner and Megan Prance, Queensland Herbarium. The Herbarium hosts free public seminars at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. They are held from noon until 1pm in the second week of the month (February to November) — in the FM Bailey conference room in the Herbarium building. You don’t need to register, just turn up…

Excerpts from Fungimap: “Fungimap’s seventh biennial conference is happening in Rawson, Victoria, 2013. Registration opens on February 4 2013. Some basic information on the conference is listed here, but please check our website for full details including abstracts of talks and workshops. Wishing you the best over the festive season, and looking forward to seeing you in…

Situated on the north side of Brisbane, Murrumba Downs John Oxley Reserve is an interesting site with a variety of habitats, ranging from dry Eucalypt forest to pockets of rainforest and mangroves. For more information about the foray, go to our Calendar of Events.

Fungimap 8 Conference The Fungimap 8 Conference was held on the 16-21 April 2015 at Batemans Bay, New South Wales. Presenters included Teresa Lebel, Ray Kearney and Michael Anlezark. Workshops presenters included ‘How to photograph fungi’ with Paul George, ‘Boletes’ with Roy Halling and ‘Truffles’ with Teresa Lebel. For information about future fungimap events, go…

Donna Davis will be speaking about her art and latest exhibition ‘Unseen : symbiotic worlds’. Donna uses a mixed range of materials and media to represent connections and relationships within the natural world in a way which evokes curiosity and reflection. She believes that the art/science field provides a powerful catalyst to challenge our discourse,…

A workshop for beginner mycologists led by Pat Leonard. The aim of this workshop is to: give an introduction to the skills of collecting on a foray; explain how to describe and process the collection; show how to start identifying the specimens; and if time permits demonstrate how to make spore prints / make slides…