The Secrets of Mushrooms

Mushrooms — one of the most mysterious and fascinating living beings! Like animals, they can be predators, scavengers, can fight with competitors, send electrical signals, and skillfully catch nimble prey. Like plants, they grow throughout their lives, can live for... many millennia, and can break through asphalt. They can also glow in the dark, shoot, determine humidity in the air, befriend plants and ants, and recycle waste!

In this book, you will not only get acquainted with mushrooms of incredible shapes and colors, but you will also learn where mushrooms originated from, when mushrooms 8 meters tall grew on Earth, how to identify and describe mushrooms, recognize poisonous ones, and debunk silly and dangerous myths about mushrooms.

You will learn:

• how to identify mushrooms by sound;
• where the spots on fly agarics come from;
• how mushrooms reproduce and spread;
• why truffles are so expensive;
• why mushrooms are necessary for nature and humans;
• which mushrooms saved the lives of millions of people;
• how parasitic mushrooms control the behavior of their hosts
• and much, much more!

And finally, you will not only learn to easily pronounce words like chytridio-, asco- and basidiomycetes, but also tell them apart!