It’s coming into mushroom season in the mild winters of the Southern Hemisphere, and plenty of people will be out looking for fungi – to eat, to photograph, to tell their toddlers that’s where fairies live.
From pines to puffballs, there’s lots of fantastic fungi to find.
But we know almost nothing about all of them.
Science journalist Jacinta Bowler spoke to medicinal chemist and mushroom expert Dr Kylie Agnew-Francis about our marvellous mushrooms.
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Originally published by Cosmos as Why do we know so little about mushrooms?
Jacinta Bowler
Jacinta Bowler is a science journalist at Cosmos.
They were published in the Best Australian Science Writing 2023.
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