Binding: Hardcover
Description: A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi from Australia's deserts to Iceland's glaciers to America's Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms we journey alongside Pouliot magnifiers in hand as she travels the world. With Pouliot as our guide we smell fire - loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and ultimately spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster mushroom but will soon heave back out along with everything else in your stomach if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vegetable caterpillars which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a fungus that devours insects from the inside out. Featuring stunning color photographs of these mycological miracles Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms shows that understanding fungi is fundamental for harmonizing with the natural world.
Title: Meetings With Remarkable Mushrooms Forays With Fungi Across Hemispheres
Author(s): Pouliot Alison
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226829630
Pages: 320 Pages, 16 Color Plates
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Conservation Of Wildlife & Habitats