762 full color identification photos show mushrooms as they appear in their natural habitat. 703 species are covered in detail with notes on hundreds of lookalikes. Includes common edible and poisonous species.
Identifies over two thousand species, answers common questions about mushrooms, and gives advice on collecting, preserving, and cooking with mushrooms.
After years of living in dread of mushrooms, we can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. When the local forest or market no longer suffices, it's time to grow your own with this guide to cultivating 31 species. Recipes are included so growers can savour the fruits of their labour.
This is a fully illustrated and user-friendly reference book that tells where and when to find edible mushrooms - with delicious recipes for each. With a dash of humor and a dollop of science, Michael Kuo takes the mystery out of mushroom hunting and cooking. Like his earlier and very popular book Morels, "100 Edible Mushrooms" is written in the ...
More than 1,000 species of mushrooms described in detail. Over 700 paintings and drawings reveal subtle field marks that cannot be captured into photographs.
Unusual shapes and colors make many mushrooms alluring to the eye, while the exotic flavors and textures of edible mushrooms are a gourmet delicacy for the palate. Yet many people never venture beyond the supermarket offerings, fearing that all other mushrooms are poisonous. With amateur mushroom hunters especially in mind, David Fischer and ...
Lavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred gorgeous full-colour photos, this engaging guidebook carefully describes forty different edible species of wild mushrooms found around Illinois and surrounding states, including Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, and Kentucky. With conversational and witty prose, the book provides extensive detail on ...
Mushrooms in Texas? Yes, it's true. One of the best-kept secrets in the Lone Star state is that mushrooms can be found in almost every region. Thousands of species of mushrooms flourish in Texas from the desert and semiarid regions of West Texas to the moist and acid soils of East Texas, where species that can also be found in South America live ...
Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most important, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a straightforward fashion-including "Never, never take a mushroom with gills" and "If a mushroom smells ...
Mushrooms are astonishing life forms. Unlike plants, they have no leaves, stems, or roots and their cells don't contain chlorophyll, which would allow them to utilize carbon dioxide from the air. Because of their unique features, scientists eventually ascribed fungi a kingdom separate from the plant and animal kingdoms. Mushrooms appeal to both ...
"Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mushrooms" is indispensable to anyone fascinated by mushrooms and other fungi. Lavishly illustrated, it contains detailed information about 420 types of mushrooms and other fungi found in the United States and Europe. The comprehensive introduction provides general information on the structure, reproduction, life ...
The bed was broken and tilted grotesquely sideways. Harrison was sprawled over in a huddle of soiled blankets. His mouth was twisted ...Harrison had been an expert on deadly mushrooms. How was it then that he had eaten a large quantity of death-dealing muscarine? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder? The documents in the case seemed to be a ...
From the author of Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photos for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their long-standing use by ancients and their continued significant to modern-day ...
Here are 175 mushroom-centric recipes, plus a guide to selecting, storing, and cleaning mushrooms, along with 40 gorgeous full-color photographs. Includes recipes for Wild Mushroom Bruschetta, Porcini Carpaccio, Truffled Lobster with Cilantro Butter, Black Trumpet Biscuits, and Portobello and Basil Salsa.
This step-by-step guide introduces the beginning mushroom cultivator to everything he needs to know, from sterile culture procedures to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. Ten chapters cover equipment, growing media, compost, small indoor quantities, starting cultures, and incubation. Black-and-white line drawings and half ...
Everything is here, from insight into the extraordinary role of fungi in history and folklore to the vivid evocation of the thrill of the mushroom hunt, from an exploration of the wonderful growth of mushrooms to their magical properties. There are identification guides to the edible species featured, and colour photographs to aid identification. ...
A number of mushrooms are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous. It is therefore vitally important that you are absolutely sure of the identity of any mushroom before eating it. If there is any doubt at all about the identity of a mushroom, do not eat it.
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