Winner of the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge in the Informational Graphics category, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation!

This splash of fungi illustrates their variety and briefly notes their impact on our lives and our world. Fungi provide our favorite foods and beverages, attack animal and plant species with devastating toxins, and create the soils and nutrients for the film of life on Earth. We provide a basic scheme for classifying the main groups of fungi, and offer information that will intrigue the student and teach the basics of fungology without an overload of terminology.