Meeting – Tuesday 10th September, 2019

School Holiday Activity: The ENVIRO DETECTIVES are back at the Cubberla Witton Catchments Network Centre! Enviro Detectives Tristan Truffle and Pixie Cap invite all keen young forensic scientists to investigate the secretive world of mushrooms. They’ll have a closer look at witches’ butter and fairy rings, examine spores, figure out how the fungi cap got…

The QMS Christmas party! Bring a plate of your favourite Christmas goodies to share and, if you wish, wear festive attire! It’s a time for celebration, so write and recite a poem about your favourite fungi. Show us an interesting fungal artifact. Show off your fungal arts and crafts!

Gillian Brown, Collections Manager at the Queensland Herbarium (BRI) will be speaking about "Processes in Herbarium". Afterwards, Vanessa Ryan will give a short talk about her recent visits to the Kew Fungarium and Edinburgh Herbarium.

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…

Guest speaker, Kim Nguyen, will be presenting "CAN I EAT IT? And other good questions you should ask about Fungi." She will discuss the varying approaches to fungal edibility by mycological societies from around the world, in order to trigger thought and debate about the goals and parameters of QMS. Glenda Walter and Pat Leonard…