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North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide To Edible And Inedible Fungi (Falconguide) Paperback – May 1, 2006

by Orson Miller (Author), Hope Miller (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
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North American Mushrooms is a field guide to more than 600 edible and inedible mushrooms that can be found across the United States and Canada. Filled with full color photographs, detailed identification information, and illustrated keys and glossaries to assist with identification, this book also features mushroom lore and helpful information on gathering and using wild mushrooms.
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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.

About the Author

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.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0762731095
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Falcon Guides; First Edition (May 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780762731091
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762731091
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 356 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book very detailed, thorough, and well-written. They appreciate the nice pictures and vivid color prints. Readers describe the book as informative and helpful for identifying mushrooms.

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21 customers mention "Description quality"17 positive4 negative

Customers find the book very detailed, comprehensive, and thorough. They say it's well-written with clear descriptions and excellent photographs. Readers also mention the book reads like an encyclopedia.

"Great book with tons of info. Very scientific, and reads like an encyclopedia. This is a great companion book to my field guides...." Read more

"So many excellent pictures and descriptions. Great field guide for any library collection." Read more

"...The descriptions provide a good starting point of knowledge on every mushroom in the book." Read more

"This is a great intermediate's guide. It is not complete and does not pretend to be...." Read more

17 customers mention "Pictures quality"17 positive0 negative

Customers find the pictures in the book nice, excellent, and vivid. They say the pictures are very helpful for identification.

"So many excellent pictures and descriptions. Great field guide for any library collection." Read more

"...The photos are good, and the reproduction (print) quality is high. But, the photos are small...." Read more

"This book is full of nice photos and information." Read more

"...The pictures were also very helpful for ID...." Read more

13 customers mention "Information quality"13 positive0 negative

Customers find the information in the book informative, comprehensive, and helpful in identifying mushrooms. They say it's a great companion to their field guides and helpful in mycology class. Readers also mention that the pictures help them adequately identify mushrooms found in the field.

"Great book with tons of info. Very scientific, and reads like an encyclopedia. This is a great companion book to my field guides...." Read more

"...The relationship between trees and their mushrooms is very interesting. Even the mushrooms that break down dead trees are beneficial...." Read more

"Excellent field guide! Pictures help to adequately identify mushrooms found in the field...." Read more

"I am a beginner to mushroom hunting and found this book very informative...." Read more

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Customers find the book has good coverage of species and informative descriptions. They say it includes many species of mushrooms.

"...On the upside, it was very thorough and included MANY species of mushrooms. The pictures were also very helpful for ID...." Read more

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Best beginner book ever! Very safe mushroom hunting. Great photos and illustration!
5 out of 5 stars
Best beginner book ever! Very safe mushroom hunting. Great photos and illustration!
This is a great starter book. I had so much fun running around taking pictures of all the mushrooms I could find. The relationship between trees and their mushrooms is very interesting. Even the mushrooms that break down dead trees are beneficial. I started late in the season and I still found lots of stuff and lost 25 pounds walking. There's something really satisfying about foraging. Wear good shoes and don't forget your basket and bug spray!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016
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Great book with tons of info. Very scientific, and reads like an encyclopedia. This is a great companion book to my field guides. I would not recommend using this or any book alone to identify mushrooms. I use this to verify identifications made with a field guide. Excellent resource.
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Pandemonia
5.0 out of 5 stars Best beginner book ever! Very safe mushroom hunting. Great photos and illustration!
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2020
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This is a great starter book. I had so much fun running around taking pictures of all the mushrooms I could find. The relationship between trees and their mushrooms is very interesting. Even the mushrooms that break down dead trees are beneficial. I started late in the season and I still found lots of stuff and lost 25 pounds walking. There's something really satisfying about foraging. Wear good shoes and don't forget your basket and bug spray!
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Pandemonia
5.0 out of 5 stars Best beginner book ever! Very safe mushroom hunting. Great photos and illustration!
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2020
This is a great starter book. I had so much fun running around taking pictures of all the mushrooms I could find. The relationship between trees and their mushrooms is very interesting. Even the mushrooms that break down dead trees are beneficial. I started late in the season and I still found lots of stuff and lost 25 pounds walking. There's something really satisfying about foraging. Wear good shoes and don't forget your basket and bug spray!
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Mary
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Mushroom Field Guide
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019
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So many excellent pictures and descriptions. Great field guide for any library collection.
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Stoney
4.0 out of 5 stars >>> DISAPPOINTED
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015
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> At first glance NAM would seem to be an exceptional resource. The coverage is vast (the number of species with descriptions and photos). NAM is physically well designed as a fieldguide (i.e., a book which will survive being taken into the field). Because of the vast coverage, NAM is a good source to browse looking for species which look similar to your specimen — you’ll usually find many candidates.
> However, the text is not designed to facilitate use. For example, there are no cross-references between diagrams and the keys, nor between the keys and individual species entries. When similar species are listed in the species entry comments, no corresponding page numbers are given.
> The index is an excessive 20 pages long. In addition to common names, higher taxa, etc, the index includes “species, genus” but not “genus, species”, nor simple genus, entries. For example, the genus Schizophyllum does not appear in the index at all, even though, commune, Schizophyllum, does. Similarly, there is no entry in the index for the genus Boletus — if you don’t have a species name to look for, you can’t find any “Boletus species” using the index. In fact, all the boletes (regardless of genera), are scattered randomly in the “Boletes–Boletales” section. I wish that the book had a separate simple “genus species” index (which would be 4–5 pages). I’ve frequently failed to find specific species in the index, and subsequently found it later by accident while looking in the text for a different species.
> Sometimes deciphering whether a name in the comments section is a synonym or a similar species is difficult. The short descriptions of individual species, in dense mycological jargon, usually fail to address characteristics I’m looking for. The huge number of species included is daunting — frequently, I can find a half-dozen potential visual matches, but little guidance on how to narrow down the possibilities — usually no guidance across genera (e.g., between very similar looking Lactarius and Russellas). Even species I’m familiar with often don’t seem to match the photos in NAM. Bottom line, my success rate in identifying species using NAM is low, and my frustration level is high.
> There is a high reliance on keys, but keys only apply to the species in the guidebook, which is probably less than 20% of the reasonably common species at any particular location—that’s true of any guidebook. NAM has an illustrated glossary but it is inadequate. The illustrated glossaries belong on the fly pages where they can be easily found, not buried in interior pages (as they are in NAM). Caveat, I was pleasantly surprised to find a diagram of the anatomy of earthstars (after tearing my hair out for a week or more trying to decipher the jargon used for earthstars) — but there aren’t comparable diagrams of other groups (other than for plain vanilla mushrooms, and even that is incomplete). The photos are good, and the reproduction (print) quality is high. But, the photos are small. While including numerous (averaging about 6) specimens in each photo (often of different stages, some showing gill surfaces, etc.) is commendable, that means that the individual specimens are often quite small in the photos.
> Stress on northern, particularly northwestern, conifer ecosystems. However, includes whole groups not seen in other mushroom guidebooks.
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Kay P
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2022
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This book is full of nice photos and information.
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JaemiO
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent field guide!
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017
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Excellent field guide! Pictures help to adequately identify mushrooms found in the field. The descriptions provide a good starting point of knowledge on every mushroom in the book.
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Erin Theimann
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a good read
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2022
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Wished it was more location specific
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Bree Bird
3.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for edibles, not a good general scientific field guide.
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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This guide focuses a lot more on whether or not the mushroom is edible. As a grad student in environmental science, I wanted a more general guide that would include things like preferred habitat, substrate, and environmental conditions. If you are looking for a guide for edibles, this should be fine. But if you are more interested in a scientific field guide, this won't be of much help.
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Marco O.
2.0 out of 5 stars Muy buen libro, buena información, le pongo dos estrellas porque venía maltratado.
Reviewed in Mexico on September 19, 2021
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No mu gusto que viniera maltratado el libro
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K. J.
5.0 out of 5 stars ... across an unknown mushroom but it is still a great book which has helped us successfully identify edible mushrooms
Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2018
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Can be hard to find what you are looking for as a reference guide if you come across an unknown mushroom but it is still a great book which has helped us successfully identify edible mushrooms. The book has paid for it self in free mushrooms.
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Chelsea
5.0 out of 5 stars Luv da shrooms
Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2019
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Have to wait for warmer weather when I can start eating wild shrooms. But I will be ready
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A. C. Seruntine
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and well organized. One still needs to understand ...
Reviewed in Canada on October 5, 2014
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Comprehensive and well organized. One still needs to understand the process of mushroom organization in order to use any field guide successfully, but this is definitely one of the most complete and logically arranged out there.
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Trevor- This Herb House
4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely recommend
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2018
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Love the book. Stays in my bag and comes with me to the bush every time. Lots of info. More durable paper would be nice but I don't think it's meant to be carried into the bush every week. I've recommended it to friends and had them get this one
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