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With more than 600 brilliant color photographs, detailed line drawings, informative and illuminating descriptions, and critical identification keys, NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS is the definitive guide to the fungi of the United States and Canada. This comprehensive book for expert and amateur alike offers tips on how, where, and when to collect wild mushrooms; suggestions for culinary uses; a section on mushroom toxins; and pictorial keys and glossaries to aid the user in precise identification. This is a must-have reference book for anyone interested in wild mushrooms, their uses, and their habitats.
DR. ORSON K. MILLER JR. is one of the preeminent mycologists in the United States. His wife and research partner, HOPE H. MILLER is the author of a wild mushroom cookbook.
DR. ORSON K. MILLER JR. is one of the preeminent mycologists in the United States. His wife and research partner, HOPE H. MILLER is the author of a wild mushroom cookbook.
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Dr. Orson K. Miller Jr. is one of the premier mycologists in the United States. His career has included work with the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, many books and articles on mushrooms, and national television and radio appearances as a mushroom expert. He taught biology and mycology at Virginia Tech for many years.
Hope Miller is a mushroom expert in her own right and is the author of cookbooks featuring the bounty of North American mushrooms.
Hope Miller is a mushroom expert in her own right and is the author of cookbooks featuring the bounty of North American mushrooms.
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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Understand what you are buying,
This review is from: North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi (Falconguide) (Paperback)
This is a good book in the right hands. If you are looking for the definative book on mushrooms, it hasn't been published. The closest equivalent to definative is the David Arora Mushrooms Demystified. This book by Miller is a FIELD GUIDE (and maybe 1/5 the size and weight of Demystified), it is very, very short on the number of species covered ('only' hundreds out of thousands). Do not use this book to decide if you have harvested an edible mushroom. There are a great many edible mushrooms that look like a great many inedible and poisonious mushrooms and YOU CANNOT DO IDENTIFICATION BY COMPARING PICTURES.
Understand I am not in any way dissing this book; Miller knew his stuff, and this is an excellent guide. I bought a copy when it was first available, and it has already seen several days in the field. I learned about it from a well respected expert who had also purchased a copy. But I also already had a well used copy of Arora, and I have been foraging for many years, and I have gotten instruction from people like Larry Evens, Gary Lincoff and David Arora, and I STILL MAKE MISTAKES. The critical feature of a field guide is the Key that walks you through the identification process. This book (Miller) has a somewhat simplier key, that I can run through quickly (and larger type which is nice for old eyes in the middle of the forest). I would never eat off the identification from this book or any other. I have already found semi-common specimens where I know the species, that Miller doesn't cover. It's a nice addition to a library that also includes something specific for your region, plus Arora's Demystified. I would take the time to put a plastic cover on it, and it is a good bit heavier than the Audubon guide. However, if it comes to it, I will be carrying this guide in my backpack rather than any of the others I own (and I own a bunch of mushroom books).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good,
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This review is from: North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi (Falconguide) (Paperback)
This is a good book on identifying common mushrooms but please be aware that you cannot learn to truly do this without learning from an expert--either someone who has extensive field training under an expert or is an accomplished academic in the area themselves. My training came from the late great, amateur mycologist, Herb Saylor, and also the eminent professor, Dr. Harry Thiers. I took all of Dr. Thiers's mycology classes back in the early 80s before he retired, and it was an honor and a priviledge to study under him (although I was a psychobiology major, I wanted to learn something about botany and mycology). I have many good general mycology field guides in my library but none are a substitute for an experienced expert. That having been said, Miller covers many of the important species in this book, although for brevity's sake many less common species were omitted. All in all a decent field guide if you remember never to eat anything you are not absolutely sure of. Remember, "When in doubt, throw it out."
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very useful in its own rite,
This review is from: North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi (Falconguide) (Paperback)
Overall, this book is great for the beginner. It includes great color photographs of every mushroom covered. Though it contains only 180 species of mushrooms across North America, it is still a great field guide for the beginner. The book also contains a very easy and clear-cut method for classifying the mushrooms that you found. It is definitely good classification and identification practice for the beginner. Overall, it is a good field guide with nice color pictures.
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Our objective is to produce a guide that can be used in North America by the casual observer of mushrooms, the amateur mycologist, students of mycology, professional mycologists, and biologists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lamellae adnate, cespitose clusters, lamellae decurrent, partial veil membranous, concolorous with the pileus, pileus viscid, spore print white, amyloid warts, veil absent, pileus dry, low umbo, pileus cuticle, brown pileus, pileus dark brown, short decurrent, viscid pileus, print rusty brown, yellow pileus, margin striate, partial veil present, spore print brown, spore print pink, weak annulus, cheilocystidia fusiform, green gleba Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, West Coast, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, North Carolina, Pacific Coast, New England, New York, Deep South, New Hampshire, Subgenus Dermocybe Pileus, Subgenus Myxacium Pileus, Subgenus Telamonia Pileus, Black Morel, Glacier National Park, Great Lake, South Carolina, Subgenus Phlegmacium Pileus, Subgenus Sericeocybe Pileus New!
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Our objective is to produce a guide that can be used in North America by the casual observer of mushrooms, the amateur mycologist, students of mycology, professional mycologists, and biologists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lamellae adnate, cespitose clusters, lamellae decurrent, partial veil membranous, concolorous with the pileus, pileus viscid, spore print white, amyloid warts, veil absent, pileus dry, low umbo, pileus cuticle, brown pileus, pileus dark brown, short decurrent, viscid pileus, print rusty brown, yellow pileus, margin striate, partial veil present, spore print brown, spore print pink, weak annulus, cheilocystidia fusiform, green gleba Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, West Coast, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, North Carolina, Pacific Coast, New England, New York, Deep South, New Hampshire, Subgenus Dermocybe Pileus, Subgenus Myxacium Pileus, Subgenus Telamonia Pileus, Black Morel, Glacier National Park, Great Lake, South Carolina, Subgenus Phlegmacium Pileus, Subgenus Sericeocybe Pileus New!
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- Mushrooms of North America by Orson K. Miller on page 89, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Flora Agaricina Neerlandica (Flora Agaricina Neerlandica , Vol 3) by C. Bas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, Second Edition (Comstock Book) by Wayne Sinclair in Back Matter
- Amanita of North America by David T. Jenkins in Back Matter
- Mushrooms of Idaho and the Pacific Northwest: Vol. 1 Discomycetes (Mushrooms of Idaho & the Pacific Northwest) by Edmund E Tylutki in Back Matter
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