Meeting – Tuesday 11th June 2019

The 28-30th March Weekend foray to Ravensbourne has been cancelled due to the exceptionally dry weather and the resulting lack of fungal growth. Ravensbourne National Park is situated on a spur of the Great Dividing Range between Toowoomba and Esk. The park contains remnants of rainforest and wet eucalypt forest along the slopes of the…

Location: Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens, Tanawha, Sunshine Coast Time: Arrive 08:30 for a 09:00 am start – will conclude by lunch time Site Details: Plenty of parking and amenities – no potable water. This foray covers a considerable distance over reasonably hilly terrain. Places are limited and the final list of attendees will need to…

There will be a report on the Spore Prints and Pics Workshop. Members are asked to bring something of interest, for example a book, or to speak briefly about such things as an interesting web site or a favourite species, etc..

Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges, Lake Eacham Qld. This will be led by the world renowned Truffle expert and all round good guy, Dr Jim Trappe, who will be teaching us and identifying our finds. Jim has been traveling to Australia for the last 30 plus years hunting and identifying our truffle species.  He is very…

Please note that no more workshops are planned for 2016. For more details, go to our Calendar of Events.

"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….