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Pictorial supplement to The Fifth Kingdom - Chapter 18

Fungi as Food - Mycophagy

(54 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.


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