The History of Mycological Illustration

 

1491
1st published illustration of a fungus
Plate: Fungus [woodcut]

Ortus sanitatis. De herbis et plantis. De animalibus et reptilibus. De avibus et volatilibus. De piscibus et natatilibus. De lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus. De urinis et earum speciebus.

[Moguntia. 1491.]

Image taken from the later, 1517 edition
Courtesy of the Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames

Next image - 1560, First published image of a fungus where it is possible to identify the genus

 

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