In dangerous fungal family’s befriending of plants, a story of loss
Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted a scarlet cap topped with white warts: the fly amanita. This brilliant, distinctive toadstool is hallucinogenic. Eating it can distort perception and cause objects to appear to expand and contract, […]