Stinkhorn - How Nature’s Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen Botany PHILIPPA PERRY

Stinkhorn - How Nature’s Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen Botany PHILIPPA PERRYThe stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus. A heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Sin

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