Edible MushroomsU of Minnesota Press - 118 pages Edible Mushrooms was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The choicest varieties of mushrooms cannot be cultivated or commercially grown but are available in abundance to those who take the trouble to find them. With this book in hand, anyone can, with confidence, gather and enjoy delicious wild mushrooms without fear of the poisonous varieties. Edible Mushrooms,a new edition of the 1943 classic guide, Common Edible Mushrooms,describes in detail more than 60 of the most abundant and most easily recognized species. Photographs, many in color, show each species in its natural habitat for easy identification. Clyde M. Christensen warns against the poisonous varieties and advises amateur mushroom hunters to become thoroughly familiar with the most common edible mushrooms and to avoid all others. This edition contains new full-color photographs, and new material on how mushrooms grow and how to identify and collect them. Christensen has updated the classification to bring scientific names into agreement with internationally approved nomenclature but retains the older technical names in parentheses for easy comparison with other guides. An enlarged section of recipes provides good ideas for making the most of a mushroom harvest. |
Contents
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How to Identify Them 10 Gathering Them | 13 |
Morels or Sponge Mushrooms 16 Puffballs 17 Sulphur Shelf Mush | 20 |
Amanita phalloides Death Cap 26 A verna | 27 |
Armillariella mellea Honey or Shoestring | 34 |
Collybia confluens 41 C platyphylla Broadgilled | 43 |
Lentinus lepideus | 50 |
Lepiota procera Parasol Mushroom 52 L rachodes | 52 |
Marasmius oreades Fairyring Mushroom | 56 |
P sapidus 62 P ulmarius | 62 |
Purple or PurpleBrown Spore Print | 70 |
Psathyrella and Nematoloma Psathyrella candolleana | 76 |
Puffballs | 85 |
Pore Fungi | 93 |
Bibliography | 113 |