: Because he now knows exactly where every mushroom is, how it grows, and whether it is edible or toxic, the "hunt" and the mystery of discovery are completely gone.
The formal study of fungi is relatively young. For millennia, humans used fungi for food and medicine without scientific understanding. Ancient Egyptians called mushrooms the "plant of immortality" and reserved them for pharaohs. The Romans referred to fungi as "children of the gods." micologia