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 Mushrooms – Botanical Chart by Adolphe Millot

Beautiful Botanical Mushrooms Diagram Chart by Adolphe Millot. The original art is by Adolphe Philippe Millot (1857- 1921), a French painter, lithographer and entomologist. Adolphe Philippe Millot illustrated many of the natural history sections of Petit Larousse (French-language encyclopedic dictionary). The page has been cropped, and digitally restored to ensure the highest quality reproduction possible.

Adolphe Philippe Millot, who illustrated many of the natural history sections of Petit Larousse, was the senior illustrator at Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. He was a member of the Salon des Artistes Francaise (honourable mention, 1891) and the Société entomologique de France.

About Mushrooms

A mushroom (or toadstool) is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source.

The standard for the name “mushroom” is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word “mushroom” is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.

“Mushroom” describes a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word.

Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as “bolete”, “puffball”, “stinkhorn”, and “morel”, and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called “agarics” in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term “mushroom” can also designate the entire fungus when in culture; the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms; or the species itself.