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Mushrooms & other Fungi
David Arora, Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi, Second EditionWeighing in at over three pounds, this hefty paperback is loaded with color and black and white illustrations. It is the most comprehensive field guide to American wild fungi and now something of a classic. The original edition was restricted to California mushrooms. This 1986 revision expanded the volume to include the whole country. Not only does Arora provide descriptions, photos, and keys to over 2000 species, but his work also celebrates the joy of mushroom hunting with wit and good humor.
Besides the description, each entry includes information on habitat, edibility, and similar species. There are also introductory sections on toxicity, cookery, terminology, classification, and habitats.
Ten Speed Press, 1986. 959 pages, illus., about 6 inches wide x 9 inches high x 2 inches thick, paperback. New.
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Gary H. Lincoff, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American MushroomsVisual Key by Carol Nehring
An all-photographic field guide to mushrooms of North America north of Mexico, covering 703 species, and featuring 762 high-quality color photographs. There are notes on hundreds of additional species similar to those treated in full. The color plates are arranged by basic appearance, including structure and color, to make them easier to locate. The plates are referenced to the text. Each species covered gets about one-half to full page treatment, and includes common name, scientific name (including older names used), family and order, description (with key features italicized, edibility, months to be found, habitat, range, and look-alikes. Many entries are accompanied by a small line drawing which shows features not readily seen in the photos. There is also a section on spore prints, and several pages of general advice on cooking and eating wild mushrooms, plus an index which doubles as a checklist.
As with other titles in the National Audubon Society field guide series, it has a durable flexible vinyl cover, and is narrow enough to easily fit into a vest or jacket pocket.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 (2003 printing). 926 pages, illus., about 4 x 7½ inches, vinyl cover. New.
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