For senior artist Kandis Elliot, postermaking is one of the best tasks of the job. Her series of educational posters started 4 years ago, when greenhouse and garden director Mo Fayyaz of the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, asked for a fruit poster. Introduction to Fungi is just the latest?and one of the hardest, because the botany department lacks a mycologist. And Elliot didn?t want to settle for a simple mushroom poster. ?There?s a gazillion of those things,? Elliot says. ?We wanted something that shows fungi as mushrooms but something more than mushrooms. Your beer, your wine, and your bread. The stuff on the back of your fridge.?
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