The Mushroom Color Atlas Quotes

“It is challenging to obtain blue colorants from nature, but the fungi kingdom is unique in that it offers a rare blue-producing pigment found nowhere else in nature.”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi

“Blue’s truncated wavelength scatters easily when colliding with particles in the atmosphere. This phenomenon, referred to as Rayleigh scattering, is the reason our sky appears blue.”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi

“Before modern times, red dyes primarily came from a tiny, pinhead-size female insect known as a cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) or the ruby-red roots of a flowering plant called madder (Rubia tinctorum).”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi

“It wasn’t until 1969 that fungi were taxonomically separated from plants and recognized as inhabiting their own kingdom.”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi