2013-06-11 (Tuesday 11th June)

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…

The Linda Garrett Reserve is a short drive to the west of Mapleton on 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 that support some rare and unusual wood inhabiting fungi. For more details,…

Fran Guard will be giving two presentations about fungi at The Planting Festival, to be held in Woodford on the 5th -7th June, 2015. Saturday 6th June The Role of Fungi in Bush Regeneration Fungi are a vital, but often forgotten part of the ecosystem. We will explore their role as recyclers, partners, parasites and…

Foray Report: Cunningham’s Gap (27th May) Members are 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..

Members will remember previous forays held at this venue. There has been rain and lots of fungi are coming up at Bellthorpe, so do come along and help us record them. We will spend the morning in the field starting at 9. Bring a picnic lunch, we will discuss what we have found over lunch…

QMS Christmas Party Vanessa Ryan – The Clark Rogerson Foray Vanessa will speak about her recent foray with the Connecticut Westchester Mycological Association.