Powerful Mushrooms - An Illustrated Anthology

Fungi Unveiled: Immerse yourself in cultural tales, scientific revelations, and vivid psychedelic visuals--a botanical masterpiece that enchants both the curious and the connoisseur. Explore the secret lives of 60 mushrooms in Powerful Mushrooms.

Powerful Mushrooms tells the story of 60 mushrooms - divided by taxonomy and healing properties. This elegant book also highlights cultural, scientific, and historical anecdotes for readers to enjoy. All further exalted by pop- and psychedelic-style images, this book is a pleasure to browse and will become a classical botanical treatise. The mushrooms will be divided into the following categories:

• Exquisite Mushrooms
• Visionary Mushrooms
• Venomous Mushrooms
• Medicinal Mushrooms
• Mycoremediation
• Strange Mushrooms & Incredible Things

About the author

Federico Di Vita is a food, psychedelia, and culture writer, with publication in Esquire, Vice, and L’Indiscreto. He is the author of various books and editor of The Psychedelic Bet (Quodlibet, 2020). He currently hosts the podcast Psychedelic Illuminism, entirely dedicated to psychedelia.

Summary

Fungi Unveiled: Immerse yourself in cultural tales, scientific revelations, and vivid psychedelic visuals—a botanical masterpiece that enchants both the curious and the connoisseur. Explore the secret lives of 60 mushrooms in Powerful Mushrooms.

Product details

• Authors: Federico Di Vita
• Assisted by: Florencia Diaz (Illustration)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9781524895600
• ISBN: 978-1-5248-9560-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 249 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 653 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Mycology, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Nature in art, NATURE / Fungi & Mushrooms