National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American MushroomsThe most comprehensive field guide available to North American mushrooms—a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library—from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700 full-color identification photographs organized visually by color and shape, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms is the perfect companion for any mushroom hunting expedition. Each species is accompanied by a detailed physical description, information on edibility, season, habitat, range, look-alikes, alternative names, and facts on edible and poisonous species, uses, and folklore. A supplementary section on cooking and eating wild mushrooms, and illustrations identifying the parts of a mushroom, round out this essential guide. |
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
How to Use This Guide | 31 |
Color Plates | 52 |
Copyright | |
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Other editions - View all
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms National Audubon Society No preview available - 1981 |
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms National Audubon Society No preview available - 1981 |
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms Gary Lincoff,National Audubon Society No preview available - 1981 |
Common terms and phrases
Agaricales Description Agaricus Amanita Amanitaceae amyloid angular Aphyllophorales Description attached basidia becoming flat blackish Boletaceae Bolete brownish bruising blue buff California Chanterelle clustered color colorless Comments coniferous coniferous woods conifers convex to flat Coral cottony cylindrical dark brown deciduous deciduous trees deciduous wood descending stalk Edibility False Morel Fertile Surface fibrous Flesh white fungi fungus gilled mushrooms gray grayish ground grows Habitat hairy Hydnaceae incurved jelly jelly fungi knob leathery Lepiota Look-alikes margin Morel mushroom nearly flat North America ochre Odor orange Pacific NW pale partial veil partial veil membranous Pezizales Pezizales Description pinkish poisonous Polyporaceae Polypore pore at tip radially lined Range reddish reddish-brown ring on stalk ring on upper scaly Season slightly slimy smooth sometimes species Spore print white stalk base sticky sunken thick Throughout North America Tooth tooth fungi Tubes universal veil upper stalk velvety whitish wrinkled yellow yellowish zoned