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The best places in Italy to go mushroom picking: a guide to the richest regions
The best places in Italy to go mushroom picking: a guide to the richest regions
Italy is a true paradise for mycology and mushroom picking enthusiasts, with diverse landscapes that offer perfect habitats for hundreds of species: here, mushroom picking is not just a hobby, but an experience that combines well-being, contact with nature and gastronomy...
Climate Change and Fungi: How Global Warming Is Revolutionizing the Fungal Kingdom
Climate Change and Fungi: How Global Warming Is Revolutionizing the Fungal Kingdom
In a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate, the kingdom of fungi represents a sensitive thermometer of the transformations underway. Often overlooked in the debate on climate change, these organisms are undergoing profound mutations that are redesigning entire ecosystems...
Mushroom Seasonality: When to Look for Them Based on the Climate and Region of Italy
Mushroom Seasonality: When to Look for Them Based on the Climate and Region of Italy
There is a perfect time for every mushroom, a hidden harmony between soil, climate and mycelium that only the most expert hunters truly know. Seasonality in mycology is not a simple calendar, but a complex environmental symphony that varies from valley to valley...
Mushroom-Eating Animals: A Journey into Mycophagy
Mushroom-Eating Animals: A Journey into Mycophagy
Today we explore an often overlooked but fascinating aspect of the fungal world: animals that eat mushrooms. This phenomenon, called mycophagy, involves a surprising variety of creatures, from insects to mammals, each with unique strategies for exploiting this food resource...
Casentinesi Forests: mushroom paradise among flora and fauna
Casentinesi Forests: mushroom paradise among flora and fauna
The Casentinesi Forests, located between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, represent one of the most intact and biodiverse forest ecosystems in Italy. This vast territory, which includes the Casentinesi Forests National Park, Monte Falterona and Campigna, is a true sanctuary for mycology enthusiasts, offering an extraordinary variety of mushrooms, flora and fauna.
Water: How to purify it with mushrooms
Water: How to purify it with mushrooms
In the vast kingdom of fungi lies a revolutionary potential to solve one of the most pressing crises of our time: water pollution. While most enthusiasts know mushrooms primarily for their culinary or mycological value, few realize that these extraordinary organisms are learning new frontiers in water purification. In this in-depth article, we explore how fungi can become our most powerful allies in the fight for cleaner water.
Linden: a hypnotic habitat for mushrooms
Linden: a hypnotic habitat for mushrooms
Linden trees (Tilia spp.) are renowned for their imposing grandeur and extraordinary longevity, but few botany enthusiasts know that they harbor a hidden world of fungal biodiversity. From aggressive parasites that threaten the tree's health to saprophytes that silently decompose dead wood, the fungi associated with linden trees play vital ecological roles...
Ireland, woods and... Mushrooms!
Ireland, woods and... Mushrooms!
Ireland is rich in green woods and forests, and has a high humidity level, making it the ideal place not only for a green holiday but also for... Mushroom hunting!
Bioremediation: how nature cleans the environment of plastics and metals
Bioremediation: how nature cleans the environment of plastics and metals
In an age of unprecedented environmental crisis, the solution to many of our problems may be hiding beneath our feet—or rather, in the soil and the mycelial networks that run through it. This article explores bioremediation, a natural technology that uses living organisms to break down pollutants...
The natural habitat of the Reishi mushroom
The natural habitat of the Reishi mushroom
The Ganoderma lucidum, commonly known as the Reishi mushroom, is one of the most valuable and sought-after medicinal mushrooms in the world. ..