Fami liar mushrooms
By: [Peter Katsaros].
Contributors: National Audubon Society.
Series: The Audubon Society pocket guides
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Mushrooms -- United States -- Identification.; Mushrooms -- Canada -- Identification.; Mushrooms -- United States -- Pictorial works.; Mushrooms -- Canada -- Pictorial works.
Other titles: Familiar mushrooms, North America.
Description: The National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms is filled with distinct descriptions and detailed color photographs yet is compact enough to easily slip into the back pocket when on a mushroom-hunting excursion. This streamlined volume contains; an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 familiar North American mushrooms, an outline of identifying mushrooms characteristics, the basics of when and where to look for mushrooms and certain distinguishing qualities of poisonous mushrooms. This pocket guide is teeming with information on this class of fungi; full-color photographs and descriptive line drawings, engaging mushroom lore on each individual mushroom species, specific identifying mushroom features, notes and warnings on each species' edibility and their poisonous lookalike counter-parts, geographical information and a guide to various mushroom family traits. Whether you are mushroom-hunting to photograph and paint them, studying them scientifically, gathering then for culinary purposes or just for the rewarding experience in itself, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms is a handy reference guide to have by your side.
Notes: Cover title: Familiar mushrooms, North America.
"A Chanticleer Press edition"--P. [2].
Includes index.