Meeting – Tuesday 14th April, 2020

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

This is the second year of this action packed course. Join us at a beautiful setting in Booroobin. I hope you can come!

These will be held in August and October and are still to be organised. If you have any ideas for a workshop, please contact the QMS Secretary: info [at] qldfungi.org.au For more details, go to our Calendar of Events.

Linda Garrett is one of the Queensland Mycological Society’s regular foray areas. The Linda Garrett Reserve is a short drive to the west of Mapleton, in the Blackall Ranges. The QMS undertake regular visits to the reserve which has a wide range of mature living trees and fine collections of logs and old tree stumps…

"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 focussing on microbial ecology. Paul graduated from the University of Bangor in North Wales with a BSc hons in Environmental Science in 2002….

Dr John Stanislic will be presenting: “Australian native land snails: Nature’s Mycologists” Australian land snails are poorly understood by the general public mainly due to their experiences with a small group of about 50 introduced snails and slugs that infest suburban backyards and gardens. These introduced species generally feed on soft, leafy foliage such as…