Nov 13, 2022
"Fungi at Home"
Fly agarics, red-banded polypores, and boletes, OH MY! These fungi are certainly at home in a densely wooded forest.
Fungi used to be included in the taxonomic Kingdom Plantae, but in 1969, through scientific research and peer review, fungi became their own Kingdom. Historical scientific books prior to this date, therefore, include fungi in their study of plants.
SciArt by Ernst Friedrich Heyn (1841-1894) for The Natural History of Plants, Vol. 2 (1895) by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, translated from the original German by Francis Wall Oliver with the assistance of Mary Frances MacDonald and Marian Busk.
