The newest addition to our well–known series of mushroom guides, MUSHROOMS OF HAWAII is a beautifully illustrated book filled with scenic photographs of Hawaii and detailed photographs of over 230 mushrooms species. An essential reference guide for the novice or advanced mycologist, this handy reference tool provides you with all the information you need to make your foraging a success, including chapters on mushroom identification, bountiful mushroom-hunting spots in Hawaii, and a guide to the seasonality of Hawaiian mushrooms. Whether hunting Copelandia cyanescens ("magic" mushrooms) in the pasture grasses high in the mountains of Maui or foraging for Laetiporus (chicken of the woods), one of the edible mushrooms found in Hawaii, this book is the must-have guide for fungophiles.• The culmination of years of research, MUSHROOMS OF HAWAII is the first book to detail the fungi of the Hawaiian Islands.
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What a delightful book! . . . will do much to promote enthusiasm for mycology in Hawai`i and the authors and publishers are to be congratulated on its realization. —Mycotaxon
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DON E. HEMMES is currently professor and chairman of the biology department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has been awarded the University of Hawaii Regent’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the W. H. Weston Award.
DENNIS DESJARDIN was awarded the Alexopoulos Prize from the Mycological Society of America for outstanding research and the W. H. Weston Award for excellence in teaching. He is currently professor of biology and director of the H. D. Thiers Herbarium at San Francisco State University.
DENNIS DESJARDIN was awarded the Alexopoulos Prize from the Mycological Society of America for outstanding research and the W. H. Weston Award for excellence in teaching. He is currently professor of biology and director of the H. D. Thiers Herbarium at San Francisco State University.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Hawaiian mushrooms galore!,
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This review is from: Mushrooms of Hawai'i: An Identification Guide (Paperback)
For anyone familiar with mushroom gathering in temperate zones, Hawaii would seem to offer scant picking . . . until you pick up MUSHROOMS OF HAWAII. Unbelievable! The mushrooms in Hawaii are harder to find, yes. Some are very different from what you're likely to encounter on the mainland. Some are old friends: morels. Others are well known, colorful enemies: Amanita muscaria. All are beautifully illustrated. Even if you aren't a hunter of wild mushrooms, the photographs alone will have you entranced. And there's a lot else in these pages as well, from recipes, to descriptions of the places where the elusive fungi grow. The bibliography is excellent, providing plenty of further reading for the aficionado and testimony to the careful research that went into this work. Is there anything wrong with it? I do have one complaint. It's much too nice to pack on a field trip. Maybe the authors will come out soon with a small field guide to take along. That way I can leave this volume safe at home where I can go over those great photos at my leisure and not worry about what might happen to the book when stuffed into a knapsack.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Not comprehensive, questionably organized,
This review is from: Mushrooms of Hawai'i: An Identification Guide (Paperback)
This is a decent book, but I find many, many mushrooms which simply aren't represented. I also dislike the organization by vegetation zone; there's simply too much crossover in a place like Hawaii. There's no taxonomy key either, so I find myself falling back to the aging standard: Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Mushrooms of Hawaii,
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This review is from: Mushrooms of Hawai'i: An Identification Guide (Paperback)
My grandson, Jason, had the priviledge to know the author, a professor at University of Hawaii, while he was achieving his degree. He was so impressed with him. Jason now is in his third year of med school in Honolulu.
I am looking forward to painting some of these wonderful specimens. Previously, I have already painted over 2,000 paintings of mushrooms! Warm wishes, Leona Julian
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