The Archive — By Form
Fungi
Not plants at all, in the strict sense. Something older, stranger, and less easily categorised. The mycelium remembers what the forest forgets.
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6 specimens
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Inonotus obliquus
The forest's slow wound, burning cold through centuries of bark.
Death Cap
Amanita phalloides
It has no smell of danger. No bitter taste. No warning at all.
Destroying Angel
Amanita virosa
Pure white, pure silent, pure lethal. An angel of the most literal kind.
Ergot
Claviceps purpurea
Saint Anthony's Fire: the burning, the visions, the amputated limbs, the dancing plague.
Fly Agaric
Amanita muscaria
The mushroom at the root of the world. All the stories begin here.
Morel
Morchella esculenta
It hides in plain sight, in the season that follows fire.