Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather
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An authoritative field guide to more than 450 species of wild mushrooms from around the world, Mushrooms shows the life cycle and features of a mushroom, what supplies are needed for mushroom foraging, and how to take a spore deposit.
A photographic field guide forms the heart of the book, providing information on size, range, and habitat; clear images and illustrations of specimens; and information on what's poisonous and what's edible — making this the ultimate guide to mushrooms.
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Authoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a readily accessible structure make this an indispensable pocket guide to mushrooms of the world. Packed with over 2,300 full-color photographs and illustrations of more than 500 mushrooms, the Eyewitness Handbook of Mushrooms is designed to act as a concise guide to identification, enabling you to recognize each species quickly and easily. Photo-encyclopedic approach Written and researched by mycology experts,each entry combines a precise description with annotated photographs to highlight the mushroom's chief characteristics and distinguishing features. Meticulously drawn artworks depict each species in its natural environment, while color-coded bands provide at-a-glance facts, such as fruiting season, size, edibility, and spore deposit color, for quick reference. Identification made easy by organizing all the mushrooms by shape, with major categories further subdivided by characteristics such as gill arrangement or flesh type.
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