EP62 – Fungi with Lee Davies UK Wildlife Podcast

We talk to Lee Davies, mycologist and Fungarium Curator at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, all about Fungi! We finally talk about this whole kingdom of life so far largely ignored by this podcast, discussing what fungi are, their different ecologies, the mycorrhiza fungi and their symbiotic relationships with trees, and how many are poisonous and edible. We also talk about the hallucinogenic species being used by humans in history and the fungi deemed of an inappropriate shape for certain Victorians!