All About Mushrooms. Popular Encyclopedia

The book "All About Mushrooms" is the result of more than twenty years of scientific, educational, lecturing, and literary activities of the renowned mycologist and science popularizer Mikhail Vishnevsky. Primarily aimed at mushroom collectors, the publication contains fascinating information about the origin and structure of mushrooms, helper mushrooms and harmful mushrooms, their place in the myths and religions of peoples worldwide, culinary processing and harvesting of mushrooms, and where, when, and how to collect them across the vast expanses of our country. Edible, medicinal, and poisonous mushrooms and lichens of Russia are discussed in detail.

The reader will receive well-founded answers to the most pressing controversial questions: can one touch the death cap, how to grow mushrooms on a plot, how to protect nails and skin from fungi, are bay bolete and greenish edible, do mushrooms really treat cancer, and many others.

The book includes more than 500 color photo collages compiled by the author for ease of identifying mushrooms in nature.

For the widest possible audience.