June 15th – Cooloola foray

Meeting Vanessa Ryan – Fungi and Lichen – The Basics Jesse and Lana – Polypore Observations from the Jungles of Borneo 7.00-9.00pm FM Bailey room Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha

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…

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,…

There will be two reports given on recent QMS projects. Megan Prance will speak about the Brisbane Fungi Project and Sandra Tuszynska on the Woodfordia Project. As always, 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…

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