April 19th, 20th & 21st – Ravensbourne

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….

There will be reports on the following forays: Chermside Hills (26th January) Baroon Pocket Dam, Montville (18th February) Ben Bennett Park, Caloundra (18th March) 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 a favourite species, etc..

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

Dr Tony Young will be presenting his talk on Hygrocybes. Susie Webster will report on the foray at the John Oxley Reserve, Murrumba Downs. Time permitting, Susie Webster will also report on the Truffle foray that was held at Ravensbourne and lead by Susie and John Dearnaley.

Registration is now open! Fungimap Inc, the Australasian Mycological Society and the Queensland Mycological Society are excited to announce that in April 2014 we will host the Queensland Fungi Festival. The Festival promises to be an innovative event attracting a range of people from Queensland and interstate.   For more information or to register, go…

A Citizen Science Event The Scenic Rim’s First Bioblitz Over a 48 hour period (day and night, 10.00am Sunday 15th October to 10.00am Tuesday 17th October), we will seek and identify as many animals, plants and fungi as possible on private and Council land, taking care to cause minimal disturbance. Experts will be on hand…