What the wood wide web actually supports
Roots and fungi do form partnerships, and some fungi link more than one plant. The chatting forest is where the metaphor outruns the evidence.
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Culture
Fungi in forests and in material history, with the metaphor marked as a metaphor.
Language and food history sit beside ecology here. We mark metaphors as metaphors, keep psychedelic discourse out of scope, and prefer checkable material culture over invented folklore.
4 essays
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Mushroom and toadstool
One language pair splits edible from suspect; another treats them as synonyms. How English got tangled — and why biology does not owe folklore a border.
Fungi in food history
Yeast, mold-ripened cheese, fermented drinks, and culinary mushrooms shaped cuisines long before anyone said “mycology.” A general history without invented firsts.
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Why this journal stays clear of psychedelic discourse
An editorial boundary, not a moral panic. Mycopsyco covers general mycology; clinical, ceremonial, and recreational psychoactive topics are out of scope here.