2012-02-25: Cooloola Foray

Commercial Opportunities for Mycology Sustainable Industry, Protein Production and Next Gen Neuro Drugs As you know we normally hold our ordinary meeting on the second Tuesday of each month, and more recently these have been digital meetings via ZOOM. We have postponed our September 2020 meeting by one week (from the 8th to the 15th…

Nigel Fechner and Megan Prance, Queensland Herbarium. The Herbarium hosts free public seminars at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. They are held from noon until 1pm in the second week of the month (February to November) — in the FM Bailey conference room in the Herbarium building. You don’t need to register, just turn up…

Foray Reports for Chermside Hills (February) and the Residential Forays (March). As always, members are asked to bring something of interest – for example specimens or a book – or to speak briefly about such things as an interesting web site or a favourite species, etc..

Please join us at 6pm for our next meeting via Zoom. The meeting will be recorded. Invitations to the Zoom meeting with details of how to join in will be sent out via email to QMS members beforehand. If you are not a QMS member and would like to attend, please email info[at]qldfungi.org.au

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…

Chermside Hills is one of the Queensland Mycological Society’s regular foray areas. The term Chermside Hills may be understood in two ways – the reference to the hilly western regions of the suburb or to the largest of the three reserves, Chermside Hills, Raven St and Milne Hill. QMS forays may be held in any…