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For a long time mushrooms were considered to be something like plants (they often sit on the same place, do not bark and do not ask for food), and some species were even considered to be animals and minerals. Well, everyone has made a mistake. Mushrooms are just mushrooms.

In truth, everything is obviously more complicated. And about this in his new book botanist Oleksiy Kovalenko. What is common in Pliny the Elder and glues? What mushrooms did the "snow man" carry with him? Dancing plague, pauvannya na vidom and how do mushrooms relate to all this? How much is the most expensive mushroom in the world and how did mushrooms get to the potato famine in Europe? What mushrooms grew on the walls of Unit 4 and who killed the Australian athletes?

And the author also told about LSD and psilocybin, liverworts that are not champignons, how your early bowl of kava is threatened by a parasitic fungus, whether it is possible to create meat from mushrooms, what the tea mushroom is.

This is a story about mushrooms and their role in the life of our planet, because it has already happened that on Earth it is not easy to find places where mushrooms grow - it is harder to find a place where they do not exist.