Mushrooms. The inhabitants of the hidden world. Hofrichter R.

Mushrooms are extremely important symbionts that entangle trees and other plants with dense networks and actively destroy organic matter. The products of this process enter the cycle of nutrients in nature. Mushrooms play an indispensable role in the production of drugs and the food industry, as well as in biotechnologies. The book of the Austrian biologist and ecologist Robert Hofrichter, skillfully illustrated by the Greek artist Passhalis Dugalis and equipped with glossary, describes the thirty of the most common, most unusual, most interesting and significant types of mushrooms and introduces the biological, culinary, practical and cultural and historical aspects of this topic.

“It is not known exactly how many types of mushrooms exists in the world, but probably there are many millions of them. Mushrooms are creatures enchanting their riddles, and I am very glad that you decided to take this mycological trip with me. ” (Robert Hofrichter).