Amanitas of North America
By: Britt A. Bunyard and Jay Justice
Publisher: The FUNGI Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Batavia, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780578675725
Subjects: Amanita; Identification; Pictorial works; Mushrooms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: About this book; title: Collecting mushrooms for study; title: Amanitas and Gravitropism; title: Morphology: fruitbody development in Amanita; title: Chemical tests; title: Amanita look-alikes; title: How to know the Amanitaceae of North America; title: Deadly Amanitas and the Southeast Asian Connection; title: Taxonomy: evolution and phylogeny; title: Mycorrhizal habit; title: Toxicology of Amanitas; title: Amatoxins; title: Out with the Old, in with the new: a better test for amatoxins; title: Amanita lore; title: On the origin of the name Fly agaric; title: Soma myths; title: Psilocybin history, personal stories and potential future; title: Religious and entheogenic uses of Amanitas; title: Amanitas have been implicated in many famous poisonings; title: Old mushroomers; title: Amanitas in popular culture; title: Amanita mushrooms and edibility; title: Section Amanita; title: Section Caesareae; title: Section Vaginatae; title: Section Lepidella: Key to species of section Lepidella; title: An enigmatic Amanita mushroom Is taking North America by storm; title: Section Amidella; title: Section Phalloideae; title: Famously Phalloides; title: Amatoxin concentration in Amanita bisporigera spores; title: Section Validae; title: Genus Limacella; title: Amanita parasites; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography and further reading; title: Helpful websites and other sources of information; title: Literature cited; title: Acknowledgments; title: Photo and illustration credits; title: About the authors; title: Index.