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- ISBN 9780008783877
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 129 x 162mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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• Inspiring and entertaining text and beautiful illustrations
• Concentrates on 40 easily identified species, to encourage the beginner
• Transforms a country walk
• Includes features including how fungi live and how to find them
• Supported by the National Trust
• A perfect gift
Discover Britain’s colourful, wonderful fungiOnce you start looking for fungi, a walk in the woods or even the local park will never be the same. Somewhere near you there are spectacular and strange species such as Yellow Brain Fungus, Chicken of the Woods, Amethyst Deceiver and Witches’ Butter. You can find fungi that look like birds’ nests, antlers, stars, fingers and ears.
This unique guide has 40 key species to look for over the year – all with distinctive features that make them easy to spot, even for the beginner.
Beautiful illustrations are accompanied by absorbing and entertaining text by two of Britain’s leading experts. Did you know that we have a fungus that glows in the dark? And one that smells like watermelon? That some of our fungi eat other fungi, and there’s even one that eat insects?
Happy spotting!
Lynne Boddy is Professor of Fungal Ecology at Cardiff University UK. She is an ardent communicator of the mysteries and importance of the amazing hidden Kingdom of Fungi to the general public, including TV, radio, popular talks, videos, articles and exhibitions. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2019 for Services to Mycology and Science Outreach.
Ali Ashby is a fungal biologist and director of a life sciences consultancy company in Cambridge. She is a former Royal Society University Research Fellow and a member of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB and the British Mycological Society (BMS).
