All That the Rain Promises and More ...
Subtitle: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
By: David Arora.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780898153880
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Mushrooms -- West (U.S.) -- Identification.; Mushrooms -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: How to use this book ; Format and terminology ; Spore color and spore prints ; Collecting gear ; Seasonal occurrence ; Eating mushrooms ; Medicinal mushrooms ; Consciousness-altering mushrooms ; Poisonous mushrooms ; Growing mushrooms at home ; Dyeing with mushrooms ;; title: Mushrooms and kids --; title: Chanterelles --; title: Milk caps and Russulas --; title: Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms without a ring --; title: Amanita --; title: Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms with a ring --; title: Agaricus --; title: Miscellaneous dark-spored gilled mushrooms --; title: Boletes --; title: Polypores --; title: Teeth fungi --; title: Coral and club fungi --; title: Puffballs and earthstars --; title: Morels and false morels --; title: Other mushrooms --; title: Toward a mushroom hunting ethic --; title: Checklist and index to common names --; title: Index to scientific names --; title: Photo credits and acknowledgments.