Forays for 2015

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…

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…

This is the Annual General Meeting of the Queensland Mycological Society. Special Guest speaker Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher will be presenting Mates – mycorrhiza and endophytes fungi that plants need.

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…

This will be an informal meeting where 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..