What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make seed collections Plant Characteristics Family Name Asteraceae

Plant Characteristics Family Name Asteraceae Species Name Baccharis pilularis 'Chablis' Common Name Chablis Chaparral Broom Plant Type Shrub Sun Exposure Coast-Sun

broad leaf dogwood with a bright golden edge

though can become very large with age

seepage areas

and a simple-but-supercharged recipe for compost tea — to transform her own landscape from a roadside dump for broken asphalt to a garden that stops traffic

What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make seed collections Plant Characteristics Family Name AsteraceaeWhat a Mushroom Lives For pushes todays mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human and animal centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world making capacities of mushrooms radically challenge this orthodoxy by revealing the lively dynamism of all forms of life. The book tells the fascinating story of one particularly