Abstract

Delicious, colorful, adorable… The book presents charming points of mushrooms with various photos and illustrations. Themes covered are: experiments using cultivated mushrooms, lives of mushrooms in the woods, mushrooms' colors and shapes, their life histories different from plants, the way to find and identify, and the influence of the global warming. This is an introductory book for parents and children who want to know the basics of mushrooms.

Author’s Information

Kentaro Hosaka is the Senior Curator & Curator of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research at the National Museum of Nature and Science since 2008. He received a doctoral degree at the Oregon State University and worked as a doctoral research fellow at the Field Museum, Chicago.
Fumihiko Arai is a photographer specialized in mushrooms and slime molds. He has published numerous books from may pullishers.