The northeastern United States is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms--some delicious, some deadly. This handy in-the-field guide offers identification information for some 50 mushrooms that mushroom hunters are most likely to encounter in the wild: Parasol Mushroom, Delicious Lactarius, Sulphur Shelf, Giant Puffball. It also features detailed photographs illustrating the characteristics to look for when identifying mushrooms and natural history information--where they grow, when they appear, and the various forms they take.
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Charles Fergus has written numerous books about wildlife and the outdoors. He lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
C. Leonard Fergus was a mycology professor at Pennsylvania State University.
C. Leonard Fergus was a mycology professor at Pennsylvania State University.
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This is a re-release of a 1960 booklet. It is of interest to historical mycologists but not very useful to amateurs who need a book to keep them away from toxic mushrooms. There are some good pictures; unfortunately, most of them are on the cover of the book.
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this book is as simple as it gets, a great book to start out with. he covers the fool proof 5, some stuff to stay away from, and if your smart, more stuff to stay away from. if you know nothing, you will learn alot. if you want to identify as many mushrooms as possible, look elsewhere.
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I thought I was buying a nice colorful book with colorful pictures inside like on the cover. NOT! The cover is the best part of the book. The pictures inside are difficult to see exactly what the mushroom should look like and they are in black and white
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This book is intended as a basic guide for persons untrained in mycology who wish to identify the common mushrooms that seem to appear from nowhere each year in lawns, fields, and woods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spore print white, white spore print, spore prints, certain mushrooms, mushroom hunters, poisonous species, other mushrooms, edible mushrooms, occurs singly Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Destroying Angel, Oyster Mushroom, Honey Mushroom, North America, Parasol Mushroom, Shaggy Mane, Smooth Chanterelle, Brick Cap, Golden Chanterelle, Meadow Mushroom, Old Man of the Woods, Sulphur Shelf, Velvet Stalk, Blue Lactarius, Delicious Lactarius, Elm Pleurotus, False Morel, Fly Agaric, Hedgehog Mushroom, Horn of Plenty, Mica Cap, Rooted Oudemansiella, Rough-Stemmed Bolete, Skull-Shaped Puffball, Toothed Fungi Hericium New!
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This book is intended as a basic guide for persons untrained in mycology who wish to identify the common mushrooms that seem to appear from nowhere each year in lawns, fields, and woods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spore print white, white spore print, spore prints, certain mushrooms, mushroom hunters, poisonous species, other mushrooms, edible mushrooms, occurs singly Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Destroying Angel, Oyster Mushroom, Honey Mushroom, North America, Parasol Mushroom, Shaggy Mane, Smooth Chanterelle, Brick Cap, Golden Chanterelle, Meadow Mushroom, Old Man of the Woods, Sulphur Shelf, Velvet Stalk, Blue Lactarius, Delicious Lactarius, Elm Pleurotus, False Morel, Fly Agaric, Hedgehog Mushroom, Horn of Plenty, Mica Cap, Rooted Oudemansiella, Rough-Stemmed Bolete, Skull-Shaped Puffball, Toothed Fungi Hericium New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Shadow Catcher by Charles Fergus in Back Matter
- Trees of Pennsylvania: and the Northeast by Charles Fergus in Back Matter
- Mushrooms of North America by Orson K. Miller in Back Matter
- Mushrooms: A Quick Reference Guide to Mushrooms of North America (Macmillan Field Guides) by Alan Bessette in Back Matter
- Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide by David W. Fischer in Back Matter
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