Education
East Bay Amanitas: The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Fall 2009 issue of Manzanita, newsletter of the Friends of Regional Parks Botanic Garden, has as it's lead article "East Bay Amanitas: the Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful," by Debbie Viess. To read the article, click here.
Further Reflections on Amanita muscaria as an Edible Species
Here is a thoughtful response to the current push to eat Amanita muscaria, along with a history of its treatment in field guides, its toxins, and warnings about edibility. To read the article, follow this link...
This article first appeared in Mushroom The Journal, Issue 110, Fall 2011 - Winter 2012, p. 42.
Sex and the Single Stinkhorn
Some rumors need a strong denial. In this essay, Debbie Viess obliterates the proposition put forth in a sketchy study published in an obscure journal that a species of stinkhorn may cause spontaneous female arousal. The authors' attempt to wrap this ridiculous idea in Hawaiian myth is firmly debunked. Although first published in 2001, the idea that this phenomenon is real persists and occasionally gets notice on social media sites. To read Debbie's humorous and direct response, follow this link...
This article first appeared in Mushroom the Journal, Issue 114, Volume 31, No.4, Fall 2015, p. 16.
Book Reviews
Agaricus of California - Kerrigan
Amanitas of North America - Bunyard and Justice
California Mushrooms - Desjardin, Wood, Stephens
The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat - Cripps
Mushrooms of North America - Audubon
Waxcaps of Eastern North America - Alan Bessette, Roody, Sturgeon and Arlene Bessette
Entangled Life - Sheldrake
Field Guide to Western North America - Davis, Sommer, Menge
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest - Trudell
100 Edible Mushrooms - Kuo
Point Reyes Mycoblitz
What is a mycoblitz?
What we learned from the mycoblitz
Point Reyes Mycoblitz Top 50 Fungi Collected
Point Reyes Fungus Fairs
Links
The Mycophagist's Ten Commandments
Poetry and Prose
Mushroom Art
© drawings by Debbie Viess
