My name is Angelos Papadimitriou and I am a teacher of English at a senior high school in Xanthi, which is a town in Thrace, Greece, with a population of about 45000.

Mushrooms is my favourite hobby and searching for them in the countryside is a frequent, and sometimes even daily, habit of mine. Over the last five years or so, I have been studying systematically the fungi in my area, where I pick, take photographs of and try to identify every mushroom or other fungus I find on my forays. My tools in this endeavour are approximately 15 books on mushrooms and fungi, the Internet, where there is a plethora of relative information and photographs, my contact with people who share the same interest as myself and the exchange of information with them, a microscope to observe spores and other, invisible to the naked eye characteristics of the fungi, and, above all, my love and passion for what I do.

For about three years now, I have maintained a site, mainly of photographs of mushrooms and other fungi, which was mostly known more internationally and less in my country. With the creation of this new site, here at the Thracian Thesaurus, I hope to contribute in my way to the registration of the fungi of Thrace, as well as to promote the interest in the beautiful but also misunderstood world of mushrooms, which is a lot richer that one would think.