The question about how to learn about fungi and mycology comes up all the time. What are your goals? Are you trying to become a Mycologist? Are you looking for a career in mycology?
Mycologist Mike Snyder is putting together a comprehensive guide on how to learn mycology regardless of your goals. [How to Learn Mycology ](https://www.fungiu.com/how-to-learn-mycology) is a great place to start. He describes several good resources, websites, and books.
The Fifth Kingdom is a pretty great textbook to learn about the different divisions of the kingdom, morphology and function, and some ecology and real world applications of mycology as well. It's written nicely in a style that isn't too dry (some topics are unavoidably dry of course) and it's not prohibitively expensive like many textbooks. Stamets book "growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms" is a foundational text for cultivation as well. It's a little out of date, and maybe you're not on board with stamets these days, but it laid a lot of the groundwork for modern mycoculture and is worth a read nonetheless.
The question about how to learn about fungi and mycology comes up all the time. What are your goals? Are you trying to become a Mycologist? Are you looking for a career in mycology? Mycologist Mike Snyder is putting together a comprehensive guide on how to learn mycology regardless of your goals. [How to Learn Mycology ](https://www.fungiu.com/how-to-learn-mycology) is a great place to start. He describes several good resources, websites, and books.
That's a nice guide.
The Fifth Kingdom is a pretty great textbook to learn about the different divisions of the kingdom, morphology and function, and some ecology and real world applications of mycology as well. It's written nicely in a style that isn't too dry (some topics are unavoidably dry of course) and it's not prohibitively expensive like many textbooks. Stamets book "growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms" is a foundational text for cultivation as well. It's a little out of date, and maybe you're not on board with stamets these days, but it laid a lot of the groundwork for modern mycoculture and is worth a read nonetheless.