What is a mushroom, how does it live, how does it reproduce, what is its place in nature, how to recognize it, how to protect it and how can it be useful to man.

Long classified with plants in the plant kingdom, the mushroom is nevertheless very different, by its structure and its way of life. What we call mushroom is only the visible face of the iceberg, the main one being buried in the substrate in a network of filaments that can extend over tens of meters. It is essential to life, by degrading organic waste and depolluting the soil, it is useful for agriculture and allows trees to communicate with each other. There are a lot of extraordinary and mysterious things to tell about this incredible fungal kingdom.