All About Mushrooms. Popular Encyclopedia

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

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

The book includes over 500 color collages created by the author for the convenience of identifying mushrooms in nature.