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Astounding Mushrooms

Art / Photobook
By: Alain Bellocq(Author), Jaroslav Malý(Illustrator)
200 pages, colour photos
Publisher: Firefly Books
NHBS
A heartfelt appreciation of the beauty and diversity of fungi
Astounding Mushrooms
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  • Astounding Mushrooms ISBN: 9780228103868 Paperback Oct 2022 In stock
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Astounding Mushrooms features gorgeous full-color photographs of more than 200 mushroom species in their wild habitat. The close-up images reveal every size of growth, every shade of color, every shadow of silhouette, and every detail of texture. Chapter text sheds light on this unique living species, neither animal nor plant. Concise captions identify the mushrooms and provide further description of their biology.

As Astounding Mushrooms reveals, mushrooms are astonishingly diverse. Shapes include buttons, nests, fans, feet, clubs, hooves, trumpets, mesh, tentacles, stars, tubes, and spines. Textures are smooth, shiny or pimpled. They can be dry or wet, edible or deadly. Nuanced colors and blushes include yellows, reds, blues, and greens. They may be speckled, stinky, slimy, hairy, or fuzzy. Some wear a hat, a "skirt", or can even move.

Wild mushrooms are enjoyed by an increasing number of locavores, vegans and wild food enthusiasts. Chefs everywhere are foraging wild foods, including mushrooms. Mushroom hunting tours have become popular, and mycolophiles are sharing their enthusiasm and identification tips online.

Astounding Mushrooms invites readers into the extraordinary fungi universe.

Contents

Introduction

Veiled Mushrooms
Spiny and Scaly Capped Mushrooms
Elegantly Capped Mushrooms
Under the Cap
Cup Mushrooms
Sponge and Coral Mushrooms
Colorful Mushrooms
Mushrooms That Grow on Wood
Bizarre Mushrooms
Mushroom Glossary
Mushroom Directory

Customer Reviews

Biography

Alain Bellocq is a mycologist specializing in the study of the Inocybe genre, who trained with Marcel Bon, a mycologist of worldwide reputation. He is president of the Association Mycologique de l'Ouest de la France and secretary of the L'Observatoire Mycologique.

Jaroslav Malý is a mycologist and member of the Czech Mycology Society. He created a mycologist club near Prague in Melnik, where he lives today. His photographs are published regularly in journals and books.

Art / Photobook
By: Alain Bellocq(Author), Jaroslav Malý(Illustrator)
200 pages, colour photos
Publisher: Firefly Books
NHBS
A heartfelt appreciation of the beauty and diversity of fungi
Media reviews

"In this beautiful hardcover book entitled Astounding Mushrooms by Jaroslav Maly and Alain Bellocq, we're given a glimpse into the wild world of mushrooms that exists like another realm beneath our feet. With over one million species of mushrooms said to exist worldwide, this book shows us some of the world's most diverse. Maly's photos detail mushrooms of various shapes including buttons, nests, fans, feet, clubs, hooves, trumpets, mesh, tentacles, stars, tubes, and spines. Textures are smooth, shiny or pimpled. They can be dry or wet, edible or deadly. Nuanced colours and blushes include yellows, reds, blues, and greens. They may be speckled, stinky, slimy, hairy, or fuzzy. Some wear a hat, a "skirt", or can even move. There is much in nature that goes unnoticed on a leisurely afternoon trek of the woods. Astounding Mushrooms inspires us to explore with new vision. You won't wander the same way after reading."
– Leyla Top, Ontario Nature Blog on 20/10/2015

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