Walking Shantigar's mushroomed woods with Dianna Smith is to enter a miniature magic world with an extraordinary guide. Dianna knows mushrooms intimately—their quirks, which are friends and which are not. 

     A three hour workshop identifying mushrooms to take home—in Massachusetts's Pioneer Valley, checking out edibility and toxicity, medical possibilities, habitats, and functional roles.

    Good field identification of fungi entails careful observation and the use of adequately descriptive language. Dianna Smith introduces us to fungal anatomy and ‘Myco-speak’—terms commonly used by taxonomists and field guide authors to describe the various parts of fungal organisms.

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