Vol 4 Issue 4 Summer 2009 THE QUEENSLAND MYCOLOGIST Bulletin of The Queensland Mycological Society Inc. The Queensland Mycologist is issued quarterly. Members are invited to submit short articles or photos to the editor for publication. The deadline for contributions for the next issue is February 1, 2009. Please ensure that the Secretary ([email protected]) always has your current email address. The Secretary, Queensland Mycological Society Inc, PO Box 295, Indooroopilly Qld 4068 SOCIETY OBJECTIVES The objectives of the Queensland Mycological Society are to: 1. Provide a forum and a network for amateur and professional mycologists to share their common interest in macro-fungi; 2. Stimulate and support the study and research of Queensland macro-fungi through the collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of information about fungi through workshops and fungal forays; 3. Promote, at both the state and commonwealth levels, the identification of Queensland’s macrofungal biodiversity through documentation and publication of its macro-fungi; 4. Promote an understanding and appreciation of the roles macro-fungal biodiversity plays in the health of Queensland ecosystems; and 5. Promote the conservation of indigenous macro-fungi and their relevant ecosystems. CONTENTS Page Society Objectives 1 QMS Website 2 The Secretary Office Bearers 2 Queensland Mycological Society Inc Sponsor Acknowledgement 2 PO Box 295 QMS Calendar 2010 3 Indooroopilly Qld 4068 President's Report 5 Some ideas on Fungal Fotography 6 ABN No 18 351 995 423 Foray Report-Redcliffe Botanic Gardens 9 July 2009 How To Become A Serious Amateur 12 Website: www.qms.asn.au Mycologist In Five Easy Steps Email [email protected] Fungi needed for Museum book 14 Membership form 19 Editor: David Holdom 1 Vol 4 Issue 4 Summer 2009 QMS Website: www.qms.asn.au Have you logged onto the QMS website lately? If not then it is time you did!! Many thanks to Andrew Kettle for getting the site up and running. Please provide feedback to the Committee about any ideas you may have for the site. Office Holders 2009-10 Committee members Sapphire President 5485 3066 [email protected] McMullan-Fisher Vice-president Patrick Leonard 5456 4135 [email protected] Lia Pardoe- 0433 172 408 Secretary [email protected] Matthews Treasurer Diana Leemon 3202 8809 [email protected] Field Trip Andrew Kettle 3376 9619 [email protected] Coordinator Other office holders Minutes Gretchen Evans 0400 772602 Secretary Librarian Susanne Nelles 3820 2101 [email protected] Newsletter David Holdom 3379 9758 [email protected] Editor QMS acknowledges and appreciates the sponsorship that has been given to the Society by the Queensland Herbarium, SEQ Catchments and Brisbane City Council. 2 Vol 4 Issue 4 Summer 2009 QMS Calendar 2010 Members are reminded that 2010 subscriptions ($20 pp) are due in January. Payment can be made by cheque mailed to the Treasurer, Queensland Mycological Society Inc., PO Box 295, Indooroopilly Qld 4068 or directly to the Treasurer at the next meeting. A Membership Renewal Form is included on page 17. Meetings are held in the Bailey Room at the Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha, commencing at 7pm on the second Tuesday of alternate months from February, unless otherwise scheduled. Check the website for any changes. There will be a pre-meeting at 6 pm. at the Herbarium at Mount Coot-tha for those who attended forays and took photographs. They are asked to bring all images preferably renamed according to the QMS naming convention summarised on the next page (see the website or March 20 Newsletter for details. The website will contain any updates to the protocol). To assist those not in attendance at meetings, notes on the addresses given are included in issues of the Queensland Mycologist. However, the notes never do justice to the topic as they do not reflect the enthusiasm of the speaker or cover the questions and discussions that were raised on the topic. So remember, where possible it is far better to attend the meetings, get the information first hand and participate in the invaluable information sharing opportunity. All original material may be reprinted or reproduced, unless otherwise stated, provided the source of the information and the copyright author are acknowledged. QMS Meeting Programme 2010 Date Speaker Topic 9 February Fran Guard Pleurotus tuber-regium 13 April David Fisher Cultural attitudes to fungi. (to be confirmed) 8 June John Wrench Taxonomic Etymology 10 August Andrew Kettle Fungal Genetics 12 October TBA Meeting Supper Roster for 2010 Two volunteers are required for each meeting – one to bring something savoury and one something sweet. Meeting Savouries Cakes/sweets Feb Matthea Paulus Fran Guard Apr Annita Hearle AGM/May All Bring a plate to share June Andrew Kettle Aug Pat Leonard Oct Dec All Bring a plate to share. 3 Vol 4 Issue 4 Summer 2009 2010 Workshop Programme Date Topic Leader Saturday, 31 July Patrick Leonard Saturday, 28 August Fungi photography for IDs Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Saturday, 25 September Megan Prance QMS 2010 Field Trip Programme Date Location Leader Saturday, 30 January Linda Garrett Park, Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Mapleton Saturday, 27 February Mount Cordeaux Susan Nelles Saturday, 27 March Chermside Hills John Wrench Saturday, 10 April Linda Garrett Patrick Leonard Saturday, 24-25 April Springbrook A.R.C. TBC Saturday, 8 May Samford Valley/ Redcliffe Jan McNicol B.G. Saturday, 29 May TBA Ray & Noreen Baxter Saturday, 26 June Southern Cooloola, Great Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Sandy National Park, Lake Cooroibah Road, QLD. Saturday, 30 October Northern SE Qld Patrick Leonard Saturday, 27 November Mushroom Farming Jon Atkinson / Kim Nguyen QMS has a system for consistent naming of images. Go top the members section of the website for information. While the system looks complex, it allows for quite a lot of information to be saved in a computer-sortable form, and that makes it a lot easier to collate images later on. Long Term Foray Programme: There are five long-term regular foray study sites covering the ecological diversity that reflects the main habitat types in South East Queensland. A mixture of day and weekend forays are run. These sites rotate dates so that they are visited in each month of the season. The five long term regular sites are: Sites Habitat Leader Visits Springbrook ARC regeneration Diana Leemon 24-25 April, 10; 28 - 30 Nov., 08; 2 - 4 May, 08 Linda Garrett wet sclerophyl Patrick Leonard 30 Jan, 10; 5 April, 08; 10 Park, Mapleton Nov., 07 Chermside Hills dry sclerophyl John Wrench 27 Mar, 10; 25th April, 09 5 Jan., 08; 7 July, 07 4 Vol 4 Issue 4 Summer 2009 Cunningham's Rainforest Susan Nelles 25 October, 08 Gap 6 October,07 Great Sandy wallum/sand dune Sapphire 26 June, 10 National Park McMullan-Fisher President's Report Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Best wishes of the season to you all. For those of you who couldn’t make it we had a wonderful end of year party on Tuesday 8th Dec 2009. Sadly there were less entrants this year so we didn’t take donations for the library. None the less -this years great winners were: Best Image Prettiest = Ruth Thomson Best Ugly Fungus = Fran Guard Best Spoken Word/Song = John Wrench Best Limerick = John Wrench Best fungi food – savoury = David Holdom Best fungi food – sweet = Rhoda Warhurst We all enjoyed some of Taylor Lockwood’s art. For those who don’t know Taylor he is a great photographer and musician who has been bitten hard by the fungal bug. Check out his weird and wonderful website about fungi at http://www.fungiphoto.com/ and http://www.kingdomoffungi.com/ Before the really festive part of the meeting got started Fran and Sapphire gave an update on the Fungi Museum Book. To find out more read the article ‘Fungi needed for Museum book‘ (in this Newsletter) this include a list of priority species. In a nutshell we are hoping that members will spend the following fungi season getting high quality images with collections of fungal species. Some advice about getting useful fungi images please read ‘Some ideas on Fungal Fotography‘ (in this Newsletter). To help members make good collections to be voucher specimens of their images please read and refer to the ‘Fungi Collection Manual’ in the members section of the QMS website (will be up by January). Patrick put together the manual and I wish I’d had such a comprehensive guide when I was getting started with the fungi. If members would like a printed copy of the manual posted to them they need to email me with their postal address or pick them up at the next meeting. I expect the print costs will be about $5 and postage $2.50. For those of you who also have got copies of the Largent books are also great reference material. If members need advice about collecting they should contact Sapphire [email protected] or Patrick [email protected]. As most of you know the last two forays to Springbrook and Linda Garret had to be cancelled due to the dry conditions. We had about 45 mm two weeks ago and a few puffballs and lawn Agarics popped up but I haven’t seen any bush fungi yet. Let’s hope we get more rain or it will be a poor summer fungal season. If people are in doubt about whether an activity is happening you should first check the website http://www.qms.asn.au/. For forays if you have signed up the foray leader will contact you if it is cancelled, you can also contact Andrew the Foray Coordinator if you cannot contact the foray leader.