Author Keith Seifert is a charming guide as he introduces us to a fungal world many of us are largely unaware of.
Tag - mycology
Nigel Chaffey
For fans of fungi – The magic of mushrooms
You can listen to an abridged version of this page as an audio file. The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, superstition and traditional medicine, Sandra Lawrence, 2022. Welbeck, in partnership with RBG Kew. How...
A book about trees and fungi, what’s not to like?*
Fungi and trees: Their complex relationships, by Lynne Boddy, 2021. Arboricultural Association. Arbor is the borrowed-from-Latin word for a tree. You’d therefore expect a book from the UK’s Arboricultural Association to...
Merlin’s magnificent mushroom masterpiece
A fascinating book examines fungi not as something apart from the rest of the world, but as something intertwined with other life on the planet.
Meet the real fungi…
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money, 2016. Oxford University Press. As much as I would like to think that plants are the most important organisms on planet Earth, even I have to admit that fungi are...
Where there’s Mushrooms, there’s Money!
Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History, by Nicholas P. Money, 2017. Distributed by University of Chicago Press for Reaktion Books. Why does anybody review books? I can’t speak for others, but I do it to get hold of a...
Colletotrichum comes good
A relative of a notorious fungus that infests beans may have positive advantages for some other plants.
