Meeting – Tuesday 12th May, 2020

The 28-30th March Weekend foray to Ravensbourne has been cancelled due to the exceptionally dry weather and the resulting lack of fungal growth. Ravensbourne National Park is situated on a spur of the Great Dividing Range between Toowoomba and Esk. The park contains remnants of rainforest and wet eucalypt forest along the slopes of the…

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

Speaker: Joshua Bodwell – Mushroom Cultivation: the art of growing delicious fungi PLEASE NOTE the NEW TIME: 4.00-6.00 pm Location: FM Bailey room, Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha.

There has been a venue change. The foray was to have been at Lake Cooroibah, Great Sandy National Park, but current climatic conditions have necessitated the change of location. We are now going to Baroon Pocket Dam Montville. We will start this foray at 8am. The walking track is through a forested area accessed from…

Fran Guard will give a report on the Cooloola Foray. Members are also 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..

Andrew Franks will be presenting The Wonderful World of the Bryophytes. The bryophytes, a collective term for moss and moss-like plants, are the second most speciose group of land plants in the world often forming a conspicuous component of many ecosystems. However, they are rarely included in floristic assessments of sites and not treated with…