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Fungus
Category: Fungi
Category: Poisonous fungi
Fungi by continent
Truffle
Portal: Fungi
Edible fungi
Fungiculture
Mushroom
Mushroom -- Wikibooks Cookbook
Mushroom hunting
Mushroom poisoning
Paleolithic diet
Psilocybin mushroom
Lingzhi mushroom

In the News . . .

• The mushroom revolution that's bringing change -- BBCNews (06 February 2024)
  
  
• ‘The Climate’s No Good’: The Hunt for White Truffles Gets Pricier -- The New York Times (22 November 2023)
  
  
• It's mushroom foraging season in Minnesota. Are you out hunting yet? -- MPRNews (27 May 2023)
  
  
• Suspected IS fighters kill 26 desert truffle hunters in Syria -- The Guardian (16 April 2023)
  
  
• Syria: at least 53 people killed while truffle hunting in suspected IS attack -- The Guardian (17 February 2023)
  
  
• The hunt for the world's most expensive fungus -- BBCReel (08 February 2023
  
  
• Biodiversity: Fungi are 'underloved and understudied' -- BBCNews (15 January 2023)
  
  
• Hunting for Truffles Is a Perilous Pursuit, Especially for the Dogs Who Dig -- The New York Times (14 January 2023)
  
  
• Chaga farming in Maine is on the fringe of being a multi-billion dollar industry -- Portland Press Herald (27 December 2022)
  
  
• Go fish: Danish scientists work on fungi-based seafood substitute -- The Guardian (24 June 2022)
  
  
• Fungi seeks similar: scientist investigates mushroom ‘chat’ -- The Guardian (05 April 2022)
  
  
• The fascinating world of fungi --(2::49:36) BBCIdeas (18 January 2022)
  
  
• The earth’s secret miracle worker is not a plant or an animal: it’s fungi -- The Guardian (11 November 2021)
  
  
• There Is a Lot of Fungus Among Us -- The New York Times (24 April 2021)
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. 2021. This Is Your Mind on Plants. NY: Penguin.
  
  
• Here are the 10 Plant-Based Food Trends That Will Be Big in 2021 -- The Beet (31 December 2020)
  
  
• Why the hidden world of fungi is essential to life on Earth -- The Guardian (10 October 2020)
  
  
• Japan's beloved matsutake mushroom under threat -- The Guardian (19 September 2020)
  
  
• Bhutan - Change Comes to the Happy Kingdom -- Deutsche Welle (42:26 min., 2020) (trailer; link) homepage
  
  
• Magic mushrooms could help ex-soldiers to overcome trauma -- The Guardian (04 July 2020)
  
  
• Shiitake happens: vegans fuel boom in exotic mushrooms -- The Guardian (25 January 2020)
  
  
• The truth about Italy’s white truffles -- BBCtravel (09 January 2018)
  
  
• On the Hunt for Mushrooms in Central Oregon -- The New York Times (09 November 2019)
  
  
• Turning Paris's underground car parks into mushrooms farms -- BBCNews (11 October 2019)
  
  
• -- The gospel of mushrooms: how foraging became hip -- The Guardian (10 October 2019)
  
  
• When my husband died, mushroom foraging helped me out of the dark -- The Guardian (22 September 2019)
  
  
• Iran mushroom poisoning: More than 800 sick from deadly fungi -- BBCNews (21 May 2018)
  
  
• 'A grand experiment': how 'shrooms made Denver America's most drug-friendly city -- The Guardian (19 May 2019)
  
  
• Denver votes on whether to become first city to decriminalize ‘magic mushrooms’ -- The Guardian (07 May 2019)
  
  
• Development plans dampen mushroom grower's future -- MPRNews (25 April 2019)
  
  
• Indoor neon-lit mushroom farms are New York's hottest new food trend -- The Guardian (01 November 2018)
  
  
• Périgord black truffle cultivated in the UK for the first time -- University of Cambridge (06 November 2017)
  
  
• Belgium and France report mushroom intoxications -- FoodNavigator (10 October 2017)
  
  
• Death in the Forest: What are rare mushroom hunters really searching for? -- Joshua Hunt, EATER (08 February 2017)
  
  
• Amid Hills of Wine and Truffles, a Mission to Give Fungus Room to Breathe -- The New York Times (06 October 2016)
  
  
• Banned from National Forest, for-profit mushroom pickers go underground -- MPRNews (31 August 2016)
  
  
• Weird foods only a local could love [Huitlacoche] -- BBCtravel (05 July 2016)
  
  
• Mushrooms -- PBS Food (21 April 2015)
  
  
• Dental calculus analysis reveals mushrooms were consumed as early as the Upper Palaeolithic -- Phys.org (17 April 2015)
  
  
• Prehistoric High Times: Early Humans Used Magic Mushrooms, Opium -- LiveScience (02 February 2015)
  
  
• Truffles contain 'bliss' molecule -- BBC Earth (12 December 2014)
  
  
• Drugs in Early Americas Included 'Magic' Mushrooms and Toad Skins -- LiveScience (10 December 2014)
  
  
• In a Food Revolution, Fungi as Comrades -- New York Times (07 June 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Evidence for Magic Mushroom Use in Europe -- NewScientist (06 March 2011)

• Bertelsen, Cynthia D. Mushrooms: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2013.
  
  
• Fungi -- BBCNews
  
  
• Interactive mushroom key
  
  
• List of North American Mycological Societies
  
  
• MushroomExpert.com
  
  
• Mushroom-collecting.com
  
  
• Portal: Fungi -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. NY: Penguin, 2007.
  
  
  • Michael Pollan. Bill Moyer's Journal. PBS (28 November 2008). (Watch Video; Read Transcrip) -- Few people reflect and report more astutely on the state of American food production and consumption than Michael Pollan. Beginning with his fascination in plant cultivation, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, Pollan has become a mixture of reporter and prophet, documenting the state of American food and warning of the consequences if we don't change our ways.
    
    
  • Video: Michael Pollen at UC Davis: Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFpjskn3_Pc>
    
    
  • Michael Pollan WebSite
    
    
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.

Taxonomy

Although commonly included in botany curricula and textbooks, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants and are placed with the animals in the monophyletic group of opisthokonts.[114] Analyses using molecular phylogenetics support a monophyletic origin of the Fungi.[40] The taxonomy of the Fungi is in a state of constant flux, especially due to recent research based on DNA comparisons. These current phylogenetic analyses often overturn classifications based on older and sometimes less discriminative methods based on morphological features and biological species concepts obtained from experimental matings.[115]

Taxonomy -- Wikipedia

Mushroom picking, 1860
Franciszek Kostrzewski

Wikimedia

The Mushroom Gatherers, n.d.
Felix Schlesinger
1833-1910