Skip to main content

Series

Fungi Lore

Mushroom folklore, ethnomycology, mycology essays

  1. Bad Doggy! December 7, 2022 Hardly anything, not even an infant asleep in a stroller, raises the oxytocin of certain people to such Everest-like heights as the sight of a wide-eyed…
  2. An Encounter with Terana caerulea July 2, 2014 Not so long ago, I was visiting a stamp-collecting friend, and I happened to see the corticioid species Terana caerulea on a recent Macedonian stamp. A…
  3. Santa Claus Is a Mushroom! December 17, 2013 Christmas is nearly upon us, and I can’t help thinking of a certain mushroom. Specifically, I think of Amanita muscaria , a large, often obese…
  4. A True Mycophile July 31, 2012 It’s been so disturbingly dry and bereft of fungi here in the Northeast that I feel a strong sense of foreboding. At any moment, I expect to see the Five…
  5. Kitchen Art Date unknown You don’t have to go foraging in the distant woods to find fungi.

All of the Bog