13th April – Foray – Mt Cordeaux

The Sunshine Coast Hinterland Foray Locations Friday afternoon, 11th March – Maroochy Botanical Gardens – a top place for both mycorrhizal fungi and others. Saturday 12th March – an all day excursion to Woondum National Park, near Gympie. This site is new for QMS, but not for several members who have made some very exciting…

Speaker – Patrick Leonard – The Value of and Reason for Fungal Conservation 7.00-9.00pm FM Bailey room Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha.

Kaylene Bransgrove Endophytes 7.00-9.00pm FM Bailey room Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha.

The Role of Fungi in Rainforest Regeneration (Working with Fungi in restoring Habitat). When: 6 June, 2014, 2.00pm to 5.00pm Where: The Conference Room, Byron Shire Council Admin. Building, Station Street, Mullumbimby, NSW. Program: Powerpoint slideshow for about 45 minutes with questions. Afternoon tea – provided Hands-on trying to identify specimens into their morpho-groups or…

Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands which shelter the northern part of Moreton Bay. Most of the island is uninhabited national park and forestry plantations. The QMS has only forayed on Bribie Island once before and that was back in 2009. That was a successful foray, with 32…

Dominated by sandy soils typical of the Great Sandy National Park, the plants and their fungal mycorrhizal partners of Cooloola have had to adapt to these low nutrient soils. The resulting diversity of Boletes, in particular, makes this a global hot spot for fungal diversity. For more details, go to our page about Cooloola National…