Saturday 23 June – Linda Garrett Reserve Foray

This will be a hands-on workshop for beginners who want to learn more about collecting, processing and identifying specimens. There will be an emphasis on how to write good descriptions. To be held at the Uniting Church Hall at Maleny. Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm Cost: $10 All places for the workshop have been filled, but…

A Citizen Science Event The Scenic Rim’s First Bioblitz Over a 48 hour period (day and night, 10.00am Sunday 15th October to 10.00am Tuesday 17th October), we will seek and identify as many animals, plants and fungi as possible on private and Council land, taking care to cause minimal disturbance. Experts will be on hand…

"Fungal diversity in maritime Antarctic soils" Dr Paul Dennis is a Lecturer in Soil and Environmental Science in UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, where he also runs a research group focusing on microbial ecology. Paul graduated from the University of Bangor in North Wales with a BSc Hons in Environmental Science in 2002….

The February 15th foray to Cunningham’s Gap has been cancelled due to the exceptionally dry weather and the resulting lack of fungal growth. Mt Cordeaux and Mt Mitchell straddle Cunningham’s Gap and are part of the Gondwana Rainforests of the Australian World Heritage Area. We start our forays in the car park, go past the…

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.

Due to COVID-19, the QMS Management Committee has cancelled all QMS meetings until further notice. Watch this space for further updates. In the mean time, check out our Facebook pages: The Queensland Mycological Society SEQ Fungi