{"id":123583,"date":"2021-12-03T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/roger-phillips-obituary\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T03:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:06:17","slug":"roger-phillips-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/roger-phillips-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Phillips obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPhotographer and author of popular botanical guides who became an expert on fungi and a guru of the foraging movementThe artist, photographer and author Roger Phillips\u2019 talents led him in many directions, not all of them predictable, and it is entirely consistent with his roaming, inquisitive spirit that he will be remembered by many as a learned and media-friendly mycologist, a David Attenborough of the mushroom, and as the guru of the foraging movement.Roger, who has died aged 88, declared his interest in fungi with his book Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe (1981), revised 25 years later, and also published a US version, Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America (1991). It appeared in a series of botanical identification guides Roger conceived, with the support of the book designer David Larkin, for Pan Macmillan, beginning with Wild Flowers of Britain (1977) and including Trees of Britain (1978), Wild Food (1983) and Herbs and Medicinal Plants (1987). Roses (1988), and further books on bulbs, shrubs, annuals, perennials and vegetables, were collaborations with the botanist and plantsman Martyn Rix, as were a later series of smaller guides on topics such as pot plants and culinary herbs. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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