#  Ortus Sanitatis. De Herbis et Plantis...(1491) 

 



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**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 Llapidibus 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*



 

##  Additional Resources 

- Harvard Magazine. [Don’t Eat Amanitas. A bad-news mushroom](http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/09/dont-eat-amanitas).
- [Mycological Society of America](http://msafungi.org/).
- [MykoLibri: Mycological Library Christian Volbracht](http://www.mykolibri.de/?lang=en).
- MykoWeb [The Registry of Mushrooms in Works of Art](http://www.mykoweb.com/art-registry/).



 

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