what is mycology?
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the systematic study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy, and their use to humans as a source of medicine, food, and psychotropic substances consumed for religious purposes, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or infection.
Image of Odontia from Jean Louis mile Boudier (1904 - 1909) Icones mycologicae ou iconographie des champignons de France, principalement Discomyctes. Mycology is the study of fungi and organisms that, like fungi, Do not produce their own food by means of photosynthesis, and.