Invitation to Subtropical Forests Ecology Course 27-30th August, 2016

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.

Members will remember previous forays held at this venue. There has been rain and lots of fungi are coming up at Bellthorpe, so do come along and help us record them. We will spend the morning in the field starting at 9. Bring a picnic lunch, we will discuss what we have found over lunch…

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…

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…

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…

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..