Month: April 2014

Fungimap 8 Conference The Fungimap 8 Conference was held on the 16-21 April 2015 at Batemans Bay, New South Wales. Presenters included Teresa Lebel, Ray Kearney and Michael Anlezark. Workshops presenters included ‘How to photograph fungi’ with Paul George, ‘Boletes’ with Roy Halling and ‘Truffles’ with Teresa Lebel. For information about future fungimap events, go…

The Linda Garrett Reserve is a short drive to the west of Mapleton on 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 that support some rare and unusual wood inhabiting fungi. For more details,…

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…

John Dearnaley will be presenting “Mycorrhizal Fungi”.

A number of forays will be held as a part of the Queensland Fungi Festival 2014. Saturday 26th April Morning Funky Fungi (for kids): Jasmin Packer (Registration includes 1 adult and 2 children, children must be accompanied. Mt Coot-tha – Own transport required. meet at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Richard Randall Art Studio) Foray with Tom…

The Citizens of the Lockyer Inc. are working to increase awareness of the rich biodiversity to be found within the Lockyer Valley, to document the flora and fauna of the area and to promote the value of the environment for residents and visitors alike. For more information about the group, see www.facebook.com/LockyerCitizens The QMS has…