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The Mushrooms of North America (by Orson K. Miller Jr.) Publisher E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. New York 360 pages; hardbound with dust cover SBN 0-525-16165-1 A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying and collecting edible wild mushrooms. I am an active mycologist living in the Pacific Northwest corner of the U.S., where fungi hunters are always stalking the illusive mycelium of the forests'. I have found this book to be very informative and well worth the purchase. I purchased this field guide to use as a comprehensive and key body of knowledge to reference when I go mushroom hunting. This book qualifies (for me) as 1 of 4 key knowledge sources that I carry and use to cross-reference mycological aspects of fungi I am researching/harvesting. This book rates amongst the top when comparing credible fungi field guides; others (for me) include National Audubon Society, Peterson, and Simon & Schuster's guides'. These are my preferred field reference books (now 4 total), as they all deliver complimentary and very knowledge-intensive content. I believe this particular field guide, Mushrooms of North America, is an excellent technical reference/field guide for the active mycologists and gourmet chefs. Found within this guide are: - 422 fungi species with detailed descriptions - 292 color identification photographs - Simple to use pictorial keys and illustrated glossary The following "reader tools" make this book one of the top 4 field guides (for me) to use in the identification of edibility properties of North American fungi: 1. Content describing how, when and where to collect mushrooms; 2. A quick and simplified pictorial key to the major fungi groups; 3. A key to determine which major group a mushroom belongs, plus 72 other observation keys to determine it's exact species; 4. A glossary - plus, another unique illustrated glossary with 108 extremely clear, narrative plate drawings; 5. Nicely detailed descriptions of 422 species, usually including size, shape, texture and color of cap, stalk, gills, ring, veil, and spores and information about growth habit, chemical reaction of spores, edibility, hallucinogenic properties, frequency, distribution, special relationships, seasons of occurence, alternate names, related species, tasters' experiences, and cooking notes; 6. 292 superb color photographs, most of them showing multiple views of each species; 7. A special section on mushroom toxins; 8. A bibliography; 9. An index to all the species (680) and all the genera described or mentioned. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: At the time of publication of this book, author Dr. Orson K. Miller, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Botany at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he teaches mycology. Prior to this (and for 5 years), he was a mycologist at the Forest Disease Laboratory, U.S. Forest Service, Beltsville, Maryland. He is also a visiting Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Montana Biological Station where he teaches a summer course in mycology.Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Bought it to assist me on the trails on Oregon. It was fantastic. Great descriptions and the brilliant colored photos were so helpful. I bought this book thirty years ago and have been enjoying the taste of these delicacies ever since.