Meeting – Tuesday 10th September, 2019

There will be two reports given on recent QMS projects. Megan Prance will speak about the Brisbane Fungi Project and Sandra Tuszynska on the Woodfordia Project. As always, members are also asked to bring something of interest, for example specimens, a book, or to speak briefly about such things as an interesting web site or…

Meeting Time: 6:00 PM Brisbane The Queensland Mycological Society will hold its Annual General Meeting virtually through Zoom and all current financial members are invited to attend. You should have already received an email about the AGM if you are eligible to vote. If you haven’t, please contact us using the info[at]qldfungi.org.au link below. You…

The meeting scheduled for 11th November has had to be postponed to Tuesday 18th November. The venue will still be Qld Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. Apologies for any inconvenience. Vanessa Ryan will be presenting Tasmanian Fungi. Vanessa and her husband, Chris, went on a two week holiday to Tasmania in June/July of this year….

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…

Meeting Megan Prance – Report on the Mentoring for Mycological Identification skills – Fungi of Brisbane project, funded by BCC ENV00203 7.00-9.00pm FM Bailey room Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha

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…