Welcome to AmericanMushrooms.com. This Web site affords me a great opportunity to share with the general public the marvels and delights of wild mushrooms, which are often referred to as "the higher fungi" because they evolved from primitive fungi. It serves as a forum where I can display the results of my many years of studying and photographing these remarkable organisms. And it affords me an opportunity to play an increasingly active role as a promoter, a "champion," of what some might thoughtlessly call "toadstools."
 
     If you'd like to know "Who the heck is this guy?", look here.

     I am always glad to get E-mails from folks who have visited my site. If you have a mushroom you need help identifying, send me clear digital images and I'll gladly take a look (my E-mail address is mycology@aol.com).

     If you have suggestions or criticisms, or any problems with the Website, please share them with me. Photographic contributions are welcome, so if you have a good photo of a species I haven't posted photos of yet (or even better shots of species of which I do have photos posted!), send it on. If you enjoy the photos, the information, the amusements, I'll be grateful if you order something from the AmericanMushrooms.com online store. And please, point your friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers to AmericanMushrooms.com.
 
     Meanwhile, enjoy!
 
     --David Fischer

I welcome invitations to present my slide show for the general public,
Please Don't Call Them Toadstools
or my grand multimedia event,
David Fischer's Wild Musical Mushroom Show.
 
I am also available to teach classes, workshops and seminars on topics ranging from the basics of finding and identifying edible wild mushrooms to "serious" mushroom taxonomy, biology and ecology.
 
For more information, contact me at mycology@aol.com.