Tuesday 13th May

QMS was successful in the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Community Sustainability and Environmental Grants Program 2016-2017. Our project (ENV00203) is titled “Mentoring for mastering mycological identification skills and community engagement” has been fully funded. The project aims to build capacity to address the severe lack of people trained to identify fungi in Brisbane. It…

Chermside Hills is one of the Queensland Mycological Society’s regular foray areas. The term Chermside Hills may be understood in two ways – the reference to the hilly western regions of the suburb or to the largest of the three reserves, Chermside Hills, Raven St and Milne Hill. QMS forays could be held in any…

Linda Garrett is located in Mapleton National Park, a short drive to the west of the town of Mapleton on the Blackall Ranges, Sunshine Coast. 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…

There will be a report on the Shoebox Workshop, held on the 31st October. Members are asked to bring something of interest, for example a book, or to speak briefly about such things as an interesting web site or a favourite species, etc..

Sunday 17th – Thursday 21st June To be held at around Wangat Lodge in the lower reaches of the Barrington National Park. Details of this event are available from (click to download) 2018-Truffle-Gathering.

Situated on the north side of Brisbane, Murrumba Downs John Oxley Reserve is an interesting site with a variety of habitats, ranging from dry Eucalypt forest to pockets of rainforest and mangroves. How to get there: The 2013 UBD map ref is 99 F1. If you heading north over the North Pine River, you take…