Mushroom Adventurer Gifts

Erratum: The caption for Fig.35 shoudl read SHAGGY MIDNIGHT DEATHCAP not CHICKEN-OF-THE-WOODS.

"I read somewhere that truffles are a gateway fungus."

MUSHROOM MASACRE.

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

'I've no time for these foragers - they come into the area and snap up all the best houses...'

'Waiter, there's a Fly-Agaric in my soup.'

An experimentalist alarms his guests by describing the appearance of the mushrooms in a dish they have just eaten.

'Ah, now's there's something different....'

"Never mind the porridge, someone's stolen my woodland mushroom collection."

'Do I have to give thanks for all the spinach, or just the bite I'm going to eat?'

"We've discovered two new organisms growing from school gym lockers."

'This species of fungi was last spotted in Oxford by Alice Liddell in 1862!'

Gene Manipulation

"No, I'm not a hare, I just happen to have big ears..."

"You might call it shoplifting officer, but I prefer to think of it as foraging."

'Are these mushrooms edible?'

Fresh off the boat and dazed by the tropical sun, Bert falls prey to the sales-rep devouring Giant Mushroom of Indonesia.

"I just realized what our problem is - we're fungible."

Goblin.

'That's right, the Princess kissed me by mistake: She didn't know the difference between a frog and a toad...'

Black Truffles!

Mushrooms of New York

'Let's face it, we're not meant to wear hats...'

"Ooops...well, at least you now can see that there are a lot of fresh mushrooms in our soup!"

The mushroom pickers

'Mom, Dad - this is Jeremy.'

Magic mushroom

"I recommend the mushrooms."

Animals and their natural seats.

'I'd always been told they found the truffles by smell.'

Magic Mushrooms

'Of course I'll need to run some tests; but offhand I'd say it's some sort of fungus infection.'

William Pitt the Younger as a 'Toadstool upon a Dunghill'

"See why I hate my nickname 'Toad Stool'?"