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 to www.fungimap.org.au.
This workshop will be presented by Dr Tony Young. Spores from many different fungal species will be examined. The workshop will be held at the Pooh Corner Environment Centre, 100 Wolston Rd, Walcol. If you have a microscope, it would be very much appreciated if you could bring it along to this workshop!
The first monthly meeting… Jutta Godwin will present: “Lichens from the Bunya Mountains to the Granite Belt”.
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..
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…
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…
Guest Speaker, Kerryn Gough will be speaking about "Cultivation of Fungi". Afterwards, Fran Guard will be presenting a short talk about "Growing fungi as a livelihood in Cambodia".
