Mushrooms are some of the most mysterious and interesting living creatures! Like animals, they can be predators, scavengers, can fight with competitors, send electric signals and skillfully catch nimble prey. Like plants, they grow all their lives, can live for many millennia and break through asphalt. And they can also glow in the dark, shoot, determine air humidity, be friends with plants and ants and recycle garbage!
In this book, you will not only get acquainted with mushrooms of incredible shapes and colors, but also learn where mushrooms came from, when mushrooms 8 meters high grew on Earth, learn to identify and describe mushrooms, recognize poisonous ones, and debunk stupid and dangerous myths about mushrooms.
You will learn:
• how to identify mushrooms by ear;
• where do the spots on the fly agaric come from;
• how mushrooms reproduce and spread;
• why are truffles so expensive;
• why mushrooms are necessary for nature and humans;
• what mushrooms have saved the lives of millions of people;
• how parasitic fungi control the behavior of their hosts
• and much, much more!
And finally, not only learn to easily pronounce words like chytridio-, asco- and basidiomycetes, but also to distinguish them from each other!
Recommended reader age: 7+
Author: Ginevra Picoco , Lorenzo Cocci
Artist: Castelnuovo Esther, Figus Valentina
Translation: Peter Volcit
Year of issue: 2025
Publisher: On foot in history
Pages: 64
Cover type: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-5-907793-39-2