Adam Mickiewicz, was not only a poet but also a keen lover of mushrooms. This is more than can be said about our contemporaries. The author focuses on the importance of the mushrooms to the ecosystem and their properties. She mainly talks about edible mushrooms (all mushrooms are edible, albeit some only once in a life-time) and poisonous. She lists type of mushroom poisonings and discourages from mushroom picking offering other forms of interaction with environment that would put a positive meaning to the saying by Jan Sztaudynger “Be as quick as a poisonous mushroom”.