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 Amanita amyloid Aphyllophorales Description attached August-October basidia becoming flat blackish Bolete buff California Chanterelle clusters Collybia color colorless Comments conical coniferous coniferous wood conifers convex to flat convex to nearly Coral cottony cylindrical dark brown deciduous deciduous wood densely distributed in North Edibility Entoloma evanescent False Morel Fertile Surface fibers fibrous Flesh white fungi gilled mushrooms grayish ground grows Habitat hairy knob Lepiota Look-alikes margin incurved moderately broad moist Mycena nearly flat North America ochre odor off-white orange Pacific NW pale partial veil patches Pezizales pinkish poisonous Polyporaceae Polypore pore at tip Puffball radially lined Range reddish reddish-brown ring on upper Russula scaly Season slightly descending stalk slime slimy smooth sometimes species Spore mass Spore print white stalk base stalkless sticky sunken thick Throughout North America Tooth tooth fungi Tricholomataceae Tubes universal veil upper stalk whitish Widely distributed yellow yellowish zoned