The Michigan Mushroom Hunters

Searching for the black trumpet of death

by Shakuntula Tambimuttu

posted 5/1/2004

Mushrooms are bizarre little beings. They inhabit a weird twilight realm somewhere in between animal, vegetable, and mineral. My dad used to tell me about searching for mushrooms with his great-grandfather in Ceylon after a thunderstorm. As a child, he thought that the thunder had magically drawn them from the cracked red earth where they peeped out like small

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