Diane Borsato is an award-winning artist exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. An associate professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, she teaches advanced courses in experimental studio.

Kelsey Oseid is an illustrator, author, and amateur naturalist. Her gouache illustrations focus on natural history and astronomy. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1 How to Use This Book

3 Is It Edible?

5 The Art of Mushrooming

14 Artist’s conk

18 Bird’s nest fungi

20 Black truffle

24 Black trumpet

26 Bleeding tooth

30 Blewit

34 Blue stain fungus

36 British soldiers lichen

38 Candy cap

40 Chaga

43 Chanterelle

48 the chinatown foray

54 Crown coral

56 Dead man’s fingers

58 Deadly webcap

60 Death cap

62 Delicious milk cap

64 Destroying angel

68 Dog’s vomit slime mould

70 Doll eyes

72 Domestic cup

74 Earthstar

76 Eyelash fungus

77 fermenting feminism

80 Field mushroom

84 Fly agaric

88 fungifest

91 Ghost pipe

93 Giant puffball

96 Golden spindles

97 Green-capped jelly babies

98 Hedgehog mushroom

100 Honey mushroom

102 Indigo milk cap

104 infinity burial suit

106 King bolete

112 Lemon drops

114 Liberty cap (magic mushroom)

119 Lion’s mane

122 Little brown mushrooms

126 Lobster mushroom

130 Matsutake

134 the metropolitan museum foray

138 mushroom studio

140 Old man of the woods

144 Orange birch bolete

148 Oyster mushroom

152 Parasol mushroom

155 Parrot waxy cap

157 Pear-shaped puffball

160 Pheasant’s back

164 Plant pot dapperling

166 Plums and custard

168 Raccoon skull

170 Satan’s bolete

174 Scaly pholiota

176 Scarlet cup

178 Shaggy mane

180 The sickener

182 Skirted stinkhorn

184 Sleeping Beauty (chromefooted

bolete)

187 soma

188 Verdigris agaric

190 White elfin saddle

192 Witch’s butter

194 Witch’s hat

197 Wood ear

200 Yellow morel and black morel

204 Yellow swamp brittlegill

208 zooetics: psychotropic house

211 How to Host a Mushroom Foray

217 A Mushroomer’s Manifesto

220 Recommended Books and Websites

223 Author Acknowledgements

225 Illustrator Acknowledgements

226 Index

232 About the Author

232 About the Illustrator