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Paul Edward Stamets (born July 17, 1955) [3] is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation .
Edible oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus sp.) fruiting from a stumpThe second principle is to promote saprotrophic fungi in the environment. [2] Saprophytic fungi are crucial to mycoforestry systems because these are the primary composers breaking down wood and returning nutrients to the soil for use by the rest of the forest ecosystem.
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World is the sixth book written by American mycologist Paul Stamets. In Mycelium Running (Ten Speed Press 2005), Stamets explores the use and applications of fungi in bioremediation —a practice called mycoremediation .
Fantastic Fungi is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Louie Schwartzberg. [2] The film combines time-lapse cinematography, CGI, and interviews in an overview of the biology, environmental roles, and various uses of fungi. [3] The film features interview segments with Paul Stamets and Michael Pollan, and is narrated by Brie Larson.
The pioneering North American mycologist Job Bicknell Ellis described over 4000 species of fungi, and collected over 100,000 specimens. Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) was the founding father of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms .
Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-9610798-0-2. Guzmán, G. The Genus Psilocybe: A Systematic Revision of the Known Species Including the History, Distribution and Chemistry of the Hallucinogenic Species. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia Heft 74. J. Cramer, Vaduz, Germany (1983) [now out of ...
The species was described scientifically by Steven H. Pollock and Mexican mycologist and Psilocybe authority Gastón Guzmán in a 1978 Mycotaxon publication. [1] According to Paul Stamets, Pollock skipped a "boring taxonomic conference" near Tampa, Florida to go mushroom hunting, and found a single specimen growing in a sand dune, which he did not recognize.
A German study showed that mushrooms collected from 1986 to 1988 had radiocaesium contents that were 8.3 to 13.6 times greater than mushrooms collected before the accident in 1985. [58] This caesium-sequestering effect is caused by a brown pigment , the polyphenol compound norbadione A , which is related to a family of mushroom pigments known ...