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In the News . . .

In a Food Revolution, Fungi as Comrades -- New York Times (07 June 2011)
Earliest Evidence for Magic Mushroom Use in Europe -- NewScientist (06 March 2011)

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fungus

NOUN:

: any of a kingdom (Fungi) of saprophytic and parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic typically filamentous organisms formerly classified as plants that lack chlorophyll and include molds, rusts, mildews, smuts, mushrooms, and yeasts

PLURAL:

fungi

ADJECTIVE:

fungal

ETYMOLOGY:

Latin

First Known Use: 1527

Merriam Webster OnLine® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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Fungi

Clockwise from top left: Amanita muscaria, a basidiomycete; Sarcoscypha coccinea, an ascomycete; bread covered in mold; a chytrid; a Penicillium conidiophore.

Scientific classification

Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked)	Opisthokonta
Kingdom:	Fungi (L., 1753) R.T. Moore, 1980[1]

Subkingdoms/Phyla/Subphyla[2]
:Blastocladiomycota Chytridiomycota Glomeromycota Microsporidia Neocallimastigomycota Dikarya (inc. Deuteromycota) Ascomycota Pezizomycotina Saccharomycotina Taphrinomycotina Basidiomycota Agaricomycotina Pucciniomycotina Ustilaginomycotina Subphyla Incertae sedis Entomophthoromycotina Kickxellomycotina Mucoromycotina Zoopagomycotina

Wikispecies

Fungi -- BBCNews
Interactive mushroom key
List of North American Mycological Societies
MushroomExpert.com
Mushroom-collecting.com
Portal: Fungi -- Wikipedia
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. NY: Penguin, 2007.
- Michael Pollan. Bill Moyer's Journal. PBS (28 November 2008). (Watch Video; Read Transcrip) -- Few people reflect and report more astutely on the state of American food production and consumption than Michael Pollan. Beginning with his fascination in plant cultivation, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, Pollan has become a mixture of reporter and prophet, documenting the state of American food and warning of the consequences if we don't change our ways.
- Video: Michael Pollen at UC Davis: Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFpjskn3_Pc>
- Michael Pollan WebSite
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.

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Morel Mushroom
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Taxonomy

Unikonta

Amoebozoa

Opisthokonta

	Animalia

	Choanozoa

Nucleariids

Rozellida

Fungi[40]

Microsporidia

	Chytridiomycota

	Neocallimastigomycota

Blastocladiomycota

Zoopagomycotina

Kickxellomycotina

Entomophthoromycotina

Mucoromycotina

Glomeromycota

Dikarya

	Ascomycota

	Basidiomycota

Although commonly included in botany curricula and textbooks, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants and are placed with the animals in the monophyletic group of opisthokonts.[114] Analyses using molecular phylogenetics support a monophyletic origin of the Fungi.[40] The taxonomy of the Fungi is in a state of constant flux, especially due to recent research based on DNA comparisons. These current phylogenetic analyses often overturn classifications based on older and sometimes less discriminative methods based on morphological features and biological species concepts obtained from experimental matings.[115]

Taxonomy -- Wikipedia

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Mushroom picking, 1860
Franciszek Kostrzewski

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The Mushroom Gatherers, n.d.
Felix Schlesinger
1833-1910

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