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Mushrooms of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountains

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I like the book. the price at amazon has to be off by an order of magnitude. I can purchase this book for $25 at denver botanic gardens.

Profusely illustrated with full color photography throughout, Vera Evenson's Mushrooms Of Colorado And The Southern Rocky Mountains is a definitive and completely "user friendly" reference manual ideal for the non-specialist general reader. The beautiful photography showcases the mushrooms in their natural habitats while the text provides keys, clues, and diagrams to help identify mushrooms found in the field. The subject of poisonous mushrooms and how to avoid eating one is simply invaluable, while the basis of mushroom structure, life cycles, habitats, and names is as authoritative as it is informative. With more than 170 mushroom species represented, Mushrooms Of Colorado And The Southern Rocky Mountains is a "must" for anyone hiking through that part of the world to enjoy the region's diverse fungi.

what a wonderful book. Inexpensive too. Beatiful photographs. It very well applies to mushrooming in the Rocky Mountain region. Many other books have pictures that don't quite match the hues, color, setting of the mushrooms I see in Colorado, but the pictures in this book does.

Deals with mushrooms from the Rockies. Nice photograph & information on the same page.An essential field guide to any mushroom lover!

This book is great to begin to familiarize yourself with the mycological world. Wonderful pictures to help you begin to know how to identify mushrooms. Not too overwhelming like some other more advanced texts without any colored photos. Also, helps you learn the lingo of Mushroom clubs with the glossary in the back. Works great for Utah mushrooms as well.

Researched mushroom books and selected this book based on our location, experience of the author, reviews, etc... We are novice wild mushroom enthusiasts (not eating them yet), trying to learn and enjoy identifying the region's "fruits". After leaning of the dangers of eating wild mushrooms, we wanted to learn more about local mushrooms and are planning to go on mycological society trips. We love the King Bolete (similar to cepes) mushroom and found out that they are plentiful in CO. This book is excellent for beginner and advanced mushroom enthusiasts. We're really looking forward to next year's mushroom season!
If you're interested in local mushroom gathering, identification, it's best to go to the local mycological society and also get local resources! For CO and Northern NM Region, this book is a must (if you can locate a copy).

Great book. Fits in my pack and the pics and descriptions are excellent.
Forager recommended!

This book is wonderful. I refer to it alot when in the mountains getting mushrooms.

would recomend this book for anyone interested in mushroom hunting.

To find out which mushrooms grow in this area, I purchased "Mushrooms of Colorado" as soon as I moved to live at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and I wasn't disappointed. I learned basics of mycology from my father and grandmother, and I'm happy to attest that V.Evenson's book not only showed me the mushrooms I was already familiar with and that are common here, but greatly extended my knowledge of fungi in general.