Fungus plates painted under the supervision of Elias Fries

The Swedish mycologist Elias Fries (1794-1878) initiated and supervised the production of a large number of paintings of fungi. Several artists were involved in the project and 1640 taxa were depicted. Some of the plates were published in Sveriges ätliga och giftiga svampar (Edible and poisonous fungi of Sweden, 1860-1868) and Icones selectae hymenomycetum (1867-1884). Many of the original water colour paintings are kept at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Here we show a small selection of these pictures.

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