{"product_id":"9780982821930","title":"Giant Polypores \u0026 Stoned Reindeer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre there mushrooms in Antarctica? What kinds of fungi grow on deer dung? What would happen to me if I ate \u003cem\u003eAmanita muscaria\u003c\/em\u003e? What have mushrooms got to do with Santa Claus? All these questions, and many others you would not have guessed to ask, are answered in \u003cem\u003eGiant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer: Rambles in Kingdom Fungi.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMycologist, author, traveler and raconteur, Lawrence Millman has brought together two dozen fascinating myco-tales of encounters with a wide range or organisms from extinct polypores, fungi that start fires and cure wounds, to intoxicated reindeer, wild mushroom collectors and Bornean head hunters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiant Polypores\u003c\/em\u003e is a fungophilic ramble from the Antarctic to Honduras to Iceland, searching for new and rare taxons, unusual characters and strange encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are enamored with such Latin binomials as \u003cem\u003eGanoderma applanatum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGymnopilus spectabilis, Inonotus obliquus \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003eRadulomyces copelandii\u003c\/em\u003e you will love Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer. If terms such as resupinate fruiting body, cystidia, hymenium or glaborous make your heart beat just a bit faster, then, as mycologist emeritus, Elio Schaechter said, “I dare you to put this book down once you open it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Komatik Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029707866352,"sku":"9780982821930","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982821930_p0.jpg?v=1763881753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982821930","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}