2012-11-25: Greater Glider Reserve Foray, Capalaba

An informal meeting, with a brief workshop report followed by a session 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..

Gillian Brown, Collections Manager at the Queensland Herbarium (BRI) will be speaking about "Processes in Herbarium". Afterwards, Vanessa Ryan will give a short talk about her recent visits to the Kew Fungarium and Edinburgh Herbarium.

Date: Saturday, 30th March, 2019 Time: 9:30 am (for a 10:00 am start) – concludes at 1:00 pm. Place: Lamington National Park, near Qld Parks and Wildlife Visitor Information Centre, 890 Binna Burra Road, Binna Burra. To register for this event please email: infor[at]qldfungi.org.au

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…

Guest speaker Dr Rod Rogers BSc(Hons) PhD DSc – Lichens Rod Rogers taught and conducted research at the University of Queensland from 1971 to 2001.  He is the author of many research publications and two books on lichen systematics. Foray Report from Linday Garrett (held on 24th June) As always, members are also asked to…

A workshop for beginner mycologists led by Pat Leonard. The aim of this workshop is to: give an introduction to the skills of collecting on a foray; explain how to describe and process the collection; show how to start identifying the specimens; and if time permits demonstrate how to make spore prints / make slides…