Can you read a mushroom?

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While we can recognise people perfectly well and have names for them
We can’t do so with trees or mushrooms as easily
A phenomenon we call tree blindness or mushroom blindness

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To see in new ways, we must be able to perceive new details.
See the same thing with fresh eyes.

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We often miss details we're not looking for.
To know what to see is to recognise, is to form a relationship
If we are to befriend the natural world, we are to first learn to recognise them.

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A fine vocabulary helps us see finer details.

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Can you read a mushroom?
- How would you describe the cap shape? texture?
- Are the gills attached? How closely were they spaced?
- Did the stem have a skirt?
- Was the base bulbous?

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Who is this for?
Some of us have roamed the natural world and
Felt a yearning to connect deeper with the land.
A yearning to know more.
This is a chart for those who feel that pull.
For those who wish to perceive a greater level of detail

While we have names for people, some of us have one word for an entire kingdom: mushrooms
It is time we add more words to that list

Although I must add, learning to see new details can rouse an insatiable desire
If you’re the kind of person who picks up on a clue and goes down a long rabbit hole, then there is no saving you.

You’ve been warned.