Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter 1 - An introduction to entangled worlds Beyond mushrooms to mycelium Thinking, un-thinking, re-thinking fungi Fungal places - from Down Under to the Swiss Alps Seeking fungi What's inside? Photo essay - The mycelial matrix Chapter 2 - Meeting mushrooms First fungal acquaintances Describing the undefinable Biological umbrellas From goblets to lattice balls Lichenised life on the edge Extremist specialists What fungi do - alliance as norm Rethinking parasites Fungal rotters Photo essay - Endless forms most bizarre Chapter 3 - Life in the subterrain Different hemispheres, different fungi Undesirable dwellings - dirt, litter and dung In not on Litter and literacy Disco in a cow pat A cargo of the uncanny Displaced fungi Retreating underground Photo essay - Fungal grub and fungal havens Chapter 4 - A stubbly bun skirmish Mushrooming from shady obscurity From moushrimpes to mucerons Of toads and toadstools Articulating fungi Idiomatic mushrooms Ergonomic fungi A meander of mycelia Words to conserve Metaphorical mushrooms Re-chanting the fungal lexicon Photo essay - Biological umbrellas Chapter 5 - Wicked wild mushrooms - a morality tale Thievish and voracious beggars - origin myths Rotting and disgusting - unsettling traits Fairy cakes and trompettes de la mort The death cap arrives in Australia Sniffing out safety - toying with toxic mushrooms Indeterminate and morphologically bizarre Trouble from elsewhere - conservation and invaders Photo essay - Recycling worlds Chapter 6 - Organising fungi The last of the natural historians The desire to divide Bounded and boundless - individuality and plurality Why names matter Naming and claiming - scientific and vernacular names Tallying fungi What makes a mushroom? Photo essay - Undersides Chapter 7 - Knowing fungi otherwise A farmer's way of knowing Aboriginal knowing Feeling like a mushroom - sensory knowing Fine-tuning to fungi Fungal olfaction - reigniting smell Getting back in touch Slow motion mushrooms Photo essay - Collecting Chapter 8 - Foraging and foraying Train-stopping mushrooms Fungologists seeking funguses - foraying for fungi Strange and new-fangled meates - foraging for fungi On morel grounds High altitude hunting Wild desires and treacherous gratifications Rethinking fungal expertise Photo essay - Lichenised lives Chapter 9 - A call for fungal wisdom Fungi in a changing world A fiscal fungal fantasy Lists and the list-less Reassessing biodiversity Looking with the heart - from managing to caring Re-enchanting the fungal imagination Endnotes Bibliography Index.