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.