Fantastic Fungi

Nova exclusive! Louie Schwartzberg gives us incredible, eye-popping time-lapse photography of dozens of weird and wonderful mushrooms you’ve never heard of, interspersed with renowned scientists and mycologists extolling the virtues and biochemistry of those life forms existing somewhere between plants and animals. FANTASTIC FUNGI highlights the beauty, intelligence and also the solutions the ‘mushroom kingdom’ offer us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.