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meliache@bookrastinating.com reviewed Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting …

An appetizer for the world of fungi, not a beginners mycology textbook

4 stars

Fungi are incredibly interesting and this book does them justice. It does an excellent job of describing their importance and the hidden connections between Fungi and plants, but also Fungi and humans. And it's written in a way that you feel close to the author, as he takes us on this journey.

I just wished there was more. More about different kinds of Fungi, more about recent science, about the importance of Fungi in different cultures etc. But I assume this is just no the scope and also not the ambition of this book, it's not meant to be an intro into mycology.

If I could I would give it 4.5 stars. It was very interesting and it made me want to dig more fungi related books, but it was not perfect. E.g. I felt a bit less invested than when reading "Never Home Alone" by Rob Dunn last …

Fungi are incredibly interesting and this book does them justice. It does an excellent job of describing their importance and the hidden connections between Fungi and plants, but also Fungi and humans. And it's written in a way that you feel close to the author, as he takes us on this journey.

I just wished there was more. More about different kinds of Fungi, more about recent science, about the importance of Fungi in different cultures etc. But I assume this is just no the scope and also not the ambition of this book, it's not meant to be an intro into mycology.

If I could I would give it 4.5 stars. It was very interesting and it made me want to dig more fungi related books, but it was not perfect. E.g. I felt a bit less invested than when reading "Never Home Alone" by Rob Dunn last year and which is another biology popular science book talking about life that is normal hidden from us. Not sure why I preferred that, maybe it's the quality of the prose, maybe it felt more scientific and more complete. So as a nitpicky German I feel hesitant to give a perfect score, so 4 it is. But I'll definitely watch out for new books from Merlin Sheldrake.

#fungi #books #entangledlife #merlinsheldrake #popularscience #biology

Antoinne Sterk

Paddo's II

#Fungi #Mushtodon #Photography #Nature

@byAndreas🤟😌✨

Buddies
#moss #mosstodon #FungiFriday #fungi #mushrooms #mushtodon #sporospondence

3 little mushrooms growing on a birch tree with green moss

Tim Smalley

#fungifriday

My fungi knowledge is poor, but they are incredibly beautiful subjects.

#woodland #forest #nature #fungi #fungifanatic #friday #landscape #macro #photos #photography #autumn #fungiverse

A lone hymenogastraceae mushroom lit by some artificial light with a group of out of focus mushrooms in shade behind.

A lone mushroom from the physalacriaceae family catching some natural light.

A tiny lone mushroom from the coprinaceae family with some beautiful golden bokeh balls in the background.

A lone mushroom from the paxillaceae family of fungus

Dan McCullough

It’s an acorn. It’s a flower. It’s an acorn ON a flower - all things I thought when I saw my first Earthstar mushroom. This is a particularly photogenic one I found on yesterdays hike. #fungi #mushroom #mushrooms #earthstar #hiking #geastrumsaccatum

Close-up of an Earthstar mushroom. It looks like a round, light brown acorn with a puckered top sitting atop 6 spread out whitish flower petals that sit directly on the ground.

die_blaue_elise

#photography #fotografie #fungi #fungiverse

Violetter Lacktrichterling (Laccaria amethystina).

siehe:

„seek“ by iNaturalist und https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetter_Lacktrichterling

Auf Waldboden, der mit braunen Buchenblättern bedeckt ist, stehen vier kleine Pilz-Fruchtkörper. Sie sind durchgehend amethyst-farbig violett gefärbt, sowohl der Stiel wie auch der Hut. Die beiden Exemplare im Vordergrund scheinen am Hut zusammengewachsen zu sein. Der rechte dieser beiden Pilze hat dadurch einen etwas verbogenen Stiel, wie ein spiegelverkehrter Buchstabe s. // On forest soil covered with brown beech leaves are four small mushroom fruiting bodies. They are amethyst-colored, purple throughout, both the stalk and the cap. The two specimens in the foreground appear to have grown together at the cap. The one on the right of these two mushrooms has a somewhat bent stalk as a result, like a mirror-inverted letter s.

Global Museum

"Bioluminescent Fungi"

Mushrooms that glow in dark, found in Brazil and Vietnam. Glow is result of an interaction between a compound called luciferin and luciferase enzyme in presence of oxygen. There are roughly 80 species of bioluminescent fungi scattered throughout the world.

History of fungal bioluminescence begins with Aristotle in 4th Century BC. For almost two millennia, this incredible phenomenon remained little studied in the literature. #Fungi

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