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.
Mar 222017
Mar 222017
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 and a cup of tea and aim to finish by just after 2 pm as some members need to get back for evening engagements.
Please let Patrick Leonard know by e-mail if you are intending to attend.
If you have not been here before Patrick will send a map.
There are lots of leeches out as a result of the heavy run so come suitably clothed with your Bushmans extra strength or whatever other potion you favour.
For more details about this foray and how to contact Patrick, please go to our Calendar of Events.
Mar 132017
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.
Dr Tony Young (© A.M. Young)
- Engage community members in discovering, collecting and identifying fungi in Brisbane. They will develop better understanding of the environment and the interplay between the fauna, flora and fungal kingdoms
- Train the collectors to make quality collections with the required notes to make identification easier. They will learn the many steps required before identification is commenced
- Add to the species list of fungi found in Brisbane
- Build capacity among our members by mentoring collectors through the identification process, finding literature, using microscopes, recognizing the features and use of keys
- Allow the purchase of a marque branded with Queensland Mycological Society logo.
In April forays will be held in Oxley and Riverhills (lack of rain may lead to venue change). Dr Tony Young will guide participants in making good collections and in the afternoon will lead workshops to teach participants how to best record their finds. He will take us through all the things you can do without a microscope. This will include making spore prints, chemical testing needed for identification and give guidance towards identification of the specimens we find.
Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher (© M. Prance)
All QMS members are asked to make collections of their Brisbane finds this year to assist this project. Early data analysis indicates we have only identified less than 10% of the possible macro fungal species in Brisbane.
Spaces are very limited so please contact Megan Prance directly at Megan.prance [at] icloud.com.
Lets get mushrooming!
(© M. Prance)
(© M. Prance)