Money, Nicholas P.

Mushroom / Nicholas P. Money. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - xv, 201 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-194) and index.

Angels on the lawn : how mushrooms develop -- Gill gymnastics : the beautiful mechanism of mushroom spore release -- Triumph of the fungi : the diversity and functions of mushroom-forming fungi -- Satan's gourmand : harvesting wild mushrooms -- Snow White and Baby Bella : the global industry of mushroom cultivation -- Death caps and muscle wasters : poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisoning -- The Victorian hippie : Mordecai Cooke and the science of mushroom intoxication -- Cures for mortality? : the medicinal mushroom fraud.

9780199732562 (alk. paper) 0199732566 (alk. paper)

2011009269


Mushrooms.

QK617 / .M644 2011

579.6