Pictorial supplement to The Fifth Kingdom - Chapter 18

Fungi as Food - Mycophagy   (54 pictures)
(the CD-ROM has full text and over 80 pictures)

Fungi as food - Agaricus brunnescens, the supermarket mushroom.

Fungi as food - oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus - wild.

Fungi as food - Pleurotus ostreatus - domesticated.

Fungi as food - Pleurotus ostreatus - from farmers' market.

Fungi as food - Pleurotus ostreatus - gift from grower.

Fungi as food - shii-take or xiang-gu,  Lentinus edodes.

Fungi as food - Lentinus edodes fruiting on a sawdust block.

Fungi as food - the paddy straw mushroom, Volvariella volvacea.

Fungi as food - Volvariella volvacea - young specimens.

Fungi as food - Volvariella volvacea label.

Fungi as food - enokitake, Flammulinas velutipes - etiolated basidiomata as grown in culture.

Fungi as food - nameko, Pholiota nameko.

Fungi as food - introduction to truffles...

Fungi as food - truffling pig of yesteryear.

Fungi as food - truffle dog of today.

Fungi as food - a truffle orchard in France.

Fungi as food - a basket of black truffles.

Fungi as food - René Pomerleau sniffing a black truffle at the truffle market in Carpentras, France.   This specimen went for US$60 in 1985.

Fungi as food - poster for an Italian truffle fair.

Fungi as food - Truffles - How many other fungi have their own International Congress?

Fungi as food - pâté aux truffes.

Fungi as food - morel festivals in Michigan.

Fungi as food - morel cartoonist in Boyne City, Michigan.

Fungi as food - morel cartoons, Boyne City.

Fungi as food - morel hunters under the gun, near Boyne city.

Fungi as food - the morel harvest.

Fungi as food - 'My Verpa's bigger than yours' - Boyne City, Michigan.  Nancy Weber, author of the best book on morels, is on the left.

Fungi as food - Clint and Kelly Kendrick in 1976 with examples of the best collection of morels we ever made, around recently dead elm trees near Ottawa, Ontario.

Fungi as food - This was it - those were the days!

Fungi as food - Only in your dreams.

Fungi as food - Dictyophora - only in China, Eh!  Pity

Fungi as food - Ustilago esculenta, as cultivated in wild rice and eaten in China.  It is a fine 'vegetable'

Fungi as medicine - ling-chi or reishi, Ganoderma lucidum, as grown in Korea.

Fungi as medicine - gift-boxed ling-chi.

Fungi as food - Boletus edulis (cep, steinpilz, porcini).

Fungi as food - matsutake, Tricholoma magnivelare, grade 3.

Fungi as food - chanterelles, Cantharellus cibarius.

Fungi as food - Lactarius deliciosus.

Fungi as food - blewit, Clitocybe (Lepista) nuda.

Fungi as food - fairy ring mushroon, Marasmius oreades.

Fungi as food - shaggy mane, Coprinus comatus.

Fungi as food - giant puffball, Langermannia (Calvatia) gigantea.

Fungi as food - honey fungus, Armillaria mellea.

Fungi as food - Amanita caesarea.

Fungi as food - Termitomyces titanicus, an edible umbrella.  (see also Chapter 16)

Fungi as food - Termitomyces for sale.

Fungi as food - Cyttaria.

Fungi as food - sulphur shelf, Laetiporus sulphureus.

Fungi as food - sweet tooth, Dentinum repandum.

Fungi as food - caulifower mushroom, Sparassis crispa.

Fungi as food - the gypsy, Rozites caperata.

© Mycologue Publications 2001