More About Fungi

Notes for the Sept. 28, 2021 UW Whitewater talk

PLEASE NOTE: Wild Fungi can kill you very dead! Please don't eat any without expert guidance.

Fungal FAQs

Details of the Mycological World

Fungal Wheels - a New Type of Field Guide

• Fungal Wheels free PDF. Photo overview of major groups of fleshy fungi by Jens Petersen and Thomas Laessoe

Introductory Field Guides

• Mushrooms of Northeast North America by George Barron
• Lichens of the North Woods by Joe Walewski

Websites

• The Wisconsin Mycological Society Mycological education, celebration, and community.
• Species observed in Wisconsin 2021 Virtual Foray. Wisc. Mycological Society
• MykoWeb by Michael Wood, San Francisco, CA.
• Basic Info on Mushrooms by David Fischer.
• Tom Volks Fungi by Prof. Tom Volk of UW LaCrosse. Getting dusty, but still a good resource.

Fungi In The News

• ‘Flora and Fauna’ Is So Outdated It’s time to give fungi the respect they’re due. By Jonathan Moens and Undark
• This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms It also makes their butts fall off. By Ed Yong

More Information

• A Very Short Introduction to Fungi by Nicholas Money.
Any of Nicholas Money's books are informative and fun reads.
• Mushrooms Demystified and All The Rain Promises and More by David Arora.
• How to Make a Mushroom Spore Print by Christine Elder. Hint: use a glass bowl instead of a box over the mushroom.
• How to Draw Mushrooms a video workshop by John Muir Laws.
• Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History by Mary Kilbourne Matossian. Fascinating thesis on fungal poisoning's effects on human civilizations.

Textbooks etc. that are READABLE

• The Kingdom of Fungi by Jens H. Peterson. Chock full of beautiful photo illustrations; a step deeper into Mycology than a field guide.
• The Fungi by Sarah Watkinson, Lynne Boddy Nicholas Money. Well-written and diverse introduction to facets of mycology.


last update 29.sep 2021 © Andrea Gargas 2021