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Each issue of Fungi will explore the world of mycology from many different angles. With regular features ranging from toxicology to medicinal mushrooms, from photography to book reviews, Fungi will inform and entertain everyone from beginner to professional mycologist.

Many of the contributing editors have won national awards for photography, writing, or pedagogical efforts. Every issue of Fungi will feature peer-reviewed technical papers ranging from original research findings to reviews of taxonomic groups to new records of North American species.

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Vol. 18 No. 4: Fall 2025


Ötzi Reawakened: New Research on the Oldest Mycophile Britt A. Bunyard	Photographer's Focus: The Creative Image Jim Cornish

Also in this Issue of FUNGI:

Special Features

Team Effort Leads to New Canadian Fungi Stamps, Cecily Franklin
Edible Mushrooms of Ancient Rome, Richard S. Winder
Before Mycology There Was Agar, Corrado Nai
Three in One, Corrado Nai
Beware of Poisonous Rubroboletus pulcherrimus, Michael Beug
Creating Craft, Cutlery and Kinship with Chlorociboria, Jeremy Holmstadt

Regular Features

Editor's Letter
Letters to the Editor
Obituaries: Moselio Schaechter, David Baltimore
The Wild Epicure: Thee Witches' Cauldron and a Bomb in the Bakery, Krista Towns
Medicinal Mycology: Medicinal Properties of Suillus, Robert Dale Rogers
Unusual Sightings: Porodisculus pendulus: the Pendulous (and Smallest) Polypore
Bookshelf Fungi: Reviews of Recent Mycological Books

Poetry and Essays

An Odyssey Into The Past, Lawrence Millman
Thee Travels of Dr. Fu Manchu, Lawrence Millman
Hunter Gatherer, Tobyn Hunt
The Most Pivotal Experience of My Life, Blake Westman
A Ring of Mushrooms, Erik Shaler
Solo davanti al fungo fingo, Serene Vestene
How to Pick Wild Mushrooms and Give 'em to Joe McFarland