Stinkhorns, truffles, smuts: The amazing diversity – and possible decline – of mushrooms and other fungi
- Written by Alexander Weir, Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Autumn edible mushrooms, mostly Boletus edulis.www.shutterstock.com“Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms…they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.”
French philosopher Denis Diderot thus dismissed mushrooms in 1751 in his “Encyclopedie.” Today his words would be dismissed in...