2013-08-13 (Tuesday 13th August)

Join us for an interesting foray into the fabulous world of fungi! Workshop presented by the Qld Mycological Society and includes a forage in the forest to find some fungi. When: Saturday, 29th Apr 2017 10:00am-12:30pm. Please arrive 10 minutes prior to event start and report to the registration table upon arrival. Where: Springwood Girl…

Linda Garrett is one of the Queensland Mycological Society’s regular foray areas. The Linda Garrett Reserve is a short drive to the west of Mapleton, in 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…

Dominated by sandy soils typical of the Great Sandy National Park, the plants and their fungal mycorrhizal partners of Cooloola have had to adapt to these low nutrient soils. The resulting diversity of Boletes, in particular, makes this a global hot spot for fungal diversity. For more details, go to our page about Cooloola National…

Dr Tony Young – Gasteromycetes   Vanessa Ryan – The New York Botanical Gardens Herbarium   Tony Young will be discussing the main groups of Australian Gasteromycetes, working mainly on morphology. He will also bring the principal works for studying them in Australia.   Vanessa Ryan will talk about her recent visit to the New…

Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges, Lake Eacham Qld. This will be led by the world renowned Truffle expert and all round good guy, Dr Jim Trappe, who will be teaching us and identifying our finds. Jim has been traveling to Australia for the last 30 plus years hunting and identifying our truffle species.  He is very…

8th and 9th October 10am to 2pm The Brisbane Open House is a free public festival that celebrates Brisbane’s architecture and offers behind-the-scenes access to 100 buildings across the city. The Queensland Herbarium is the centre for science and information on Queensland’s plants, animals and ecosystems, and is part of the Queensland Government’s Department of…