Meeting – Tuesday 12th May, 2020

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…

There will be a report on the Shoebox Workshop, held on the 31st October. 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..

This is a new foray site for the QMS. Situated west of the Glass House Mountains, about 98 km (or 90 min drive) north-west of Brisbane CBD, the site features pristine rainforest. For more details, go to our Calendar of Events.

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…

The Ben Bennett Bushland Park is one of the few remaining remnant bushland areas in the heart of Caloundra. It features walking tracks which guide visitors through the vegetation communities of Melaleuca and Eucalypt forests, coastal heaths and one of the few areas of coastal lowland vine forest. This is the first time that the…

Dr Tony Young will be giving a talk on “Australian Species of Ramaria“. This is also the QMS Annual General Meeting.