Foray – Saturday 25th May – John Oxley Reserve

Festive celebrations and a Foray Report: “A Feast of Fungi – August Forays in Finland, Estonia and Latvia”. For more information on the Foray Report, please click HERE. Tuesday 11th December at 7pm at the F. M.Bailey Room, Qld Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.

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…

Morwenna Boddington will be giving a presentation on Russulas.

The Allure of Fungi by Alison Pouliot Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It…

Dr Tony Young – Gasteromycetes   Vanessa Ryan – The New York Botanical Gardens Herbarium   Tony Young will be discussing the main groups of Australian Gasteromycetes, working mainly on morphology. He will also bring the principal works for studying them in Australia.   Vanessa Ryan will talk about her recent visit to the New…

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.