Mushrooming An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi

by Borsato, Diane; Oseid, Kelsey

• ISBN13: 9781615199587
• ISBN10: 1615199586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-02-28
• Publisher: The Experiment

Summary

“A merry, idiosyncratic guide, charmingly illustrated.”—Eugenia Bone, The Wall Street Journal
 
An illustrated guide to over 100 types of mushrooms, offering insights and stories about these mysterious organisms

An incredible diversity of fungi is flourishing all around us, not just in the forest but in parks, markets, and even museums. Once you know how to look, you can find mushrooms named after fairies and demons, mushrooms that look so much like woodland birds they are shot at by hunters, mushrooms that glow in the dark . . . and so much more.

Beyond serving as a guide for identification, Mushrooming explores how “the quiet hunt” can radically expand our perspectives, connect us to nature, and enrich our lives. Whether you’re a beginner forager or an expert mycophile, this is the perfect handbook to spark your curiosity and deepen your appreciation for the fantastic, delicious, deadly, and strange world of fungi.

Author Biography

Diane Borsato (BFA York University, MFA Concordia University, MA Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) was awarded the Victor Martyn-Lynch Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts, and was twice nominated for the Sobey Art Award. She has exhibited the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, the AGYU, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Walter Philips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Owens Museum, the National Art Centre, the Toronto Biennial of Art, and in galleries and museums internationally. As Associate Professor at the University in Guelph, she teaches advanced courses in Experimental Studio that explore the relationships between art and everyday life.

Kelsey Oseid is an illustrator, author, and amateur naturalist based in Minneapolis, MN. Her gouache illustrations focus on natural history subjects like taxonomy, biodiversity, and taxidermy, as well as related subjects like astronomy and the ways humans relate to the natural world. She is the author and illustrator of three books with Ten Speed Press. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and young son.

Table of Contents

1 How to Use This Book

3 Is It Edible?

5 The Art of Mushrooming

14 Artist’s conk

18 Bird’s nest fungi

20 Black truffle

24 Black trumpet

26 Bleeding tooth

30 Blewit

34 Blue stain fungus

36 British soldiers lichen

38 Candy cap

40 Chaga

43 Chanterelle

48 the chinatown foray

54 Crown coral

56 Dead man’s fingers

58 Deadly webcap

60 Death cap

62 Delicious milk cap

64 Destroying angel

68 Dog’s vomit slime mould

70 Doll eyes

72 Domestic cup

74 Earthstar

76 Eyelash fungus

77 fermenting feminism

80 Field mushroom

84 Fly agaric

88 fungifest

91 Ghost pipe

93 Giant puffball

96 Golden spindles

97 Green-capped jelly babies

98 Hedgehog mushroom

100 Honey mushroom

102 Indigo milk cap

104 infinity burial suit

106 King bolete

112 Lemon drops

114 Liberty cap (magic mushroom)

119 Lion’s mane

122 Little brown mushrooms

126 Lobster mushroom

130 Matsutake

134 the metropolitan museum foray

138 mushroom studio

140 Old man of the woods

144 Orange birch bolete

148 Oyster mushroom

152 Parasol mushroom

155 Parrot waxy cap

157 Pear-shaped puffball

160 Pheasant’s back

164 Plant pot dapperling

166 Plums and custard

168 Raccoon skull

170 Satan’s bolete

174 Scaly pholiota

176 Scarlet cup

178 Shaggy mane

180 The sickener

182 Skirted stinkhorn

184 Sleeping Beauty (chromefooted

bolete)

187 soma

188 Verdigris agaric

190 White elfin saddle

192 Witch’s butter

194 Witch’s hat

197 Wood ear

200 Yellow morel and black morel

204 Yellow swamp brittlegill

208 zooetics: psychotropic house

211 How to Host a Mushroom Foray

217 A Mushroomer’s Manifesto

220 Recommended Books and Websites

223 Author Acknowledgements

225 Illustrator Acknowledgements

226 Index

232 About the Author

232 About the Illustrator