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Learn to COOK - Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England
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Manufacturer: Lone Pine Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 579
EAN: 9781551052014
ISBN: 1551052016
Label: Lone Pine Publishing
Manufacturer: Lone Pine Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1999-03
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
Studio: Lone Pine Publishing
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A full-color photographic field guide to mushrooms and fungi of the northern United States, from the Midwest to New England. Featured in USA Today, this must-have reference has spectacular photos and excellent species information.
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Summary: Mushrooms of Northeast North America
Comment: As a beginner in my new hobby, I needed a book that would be easy to use,with enough technical info to keep me from making mistakes. This book does it all for me.
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Summary: Fungi Intellecti
Comment: I myself, living in the Northeast, bought this book hoping for a lot of specific information for amateur or wanna-bee shroomers. I was hoping for very specific information on where and when to find edible wild mushrooms in my area. But was profoundly disappointed in this pretty, and scholarly textbook. If you want to be a fungi freak, this is your book. But if you just have an insatiable appetite for mushrooms, and take nature walks anyway, so what the heck, I don't think this is what you'll be looking for.
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Summary: Do not, under any circumstances, buy this book.
Comment: This book misses one edible mushroom in particular that is of great interest to amateur hunters. Grifola frondosa is one of the world's best edibles and can grow to huge size. I am very surprised that an author with such prestigious honors missed it (although he did find a similar mushroom in the same group, the non-edible "Berekley's Polypore"). Grifola frondosa is common and widespread, and grows up to a huge size. To write about each of these other mushrooms, and not to have at least walked onto frondosa, is impossible. I suggest the Audubon guide, although the pictures aren't as nice, the black and white plates in the back can help identify the shape of a mushroom more clearly. To make up for the keys in this book, it is easy to scrounge around the net. (Keys help identify mushrooms even if you have no idea what they are.) Best of luck in your hunting.
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Summary: The best guide for northeastern North America
Comment: I love this book. Dr. Barron's field guide is filled with gorgeous photos and valuable information. There is no better field guide to the mushrooms of northeastern North America, and Dr. Barron has an incredible knack for describing mushrooms succinctly. Many, many species featured in this book are not featured in other field guides. "Mushrooms of Northeast North America" is a must for anyone interested in identifying mushrooms.
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Summary: Motivating - my favorite
Comment: I've had this book two years, and since that time have been hunting fungi to take pictures. They are interesting and make good subjects - and this book is motiviating with its beautiful photographs. A good 'guide' to read in the evening before going out the next day..
This is my favorite of a growing 'fungi guide' library, and the first I use when returning home from the field to look at my photos. [A bit tall for the pocket, but narrower than most field guides.] It does not cover everything I find, but neither do any of the others. You have to use multiple sources to get a feel for what you saw, and I now routinely collect a few specimens of the more common things I see to make spore prints to aid identification (but don't eat them!!). Being able to review your own photos helps. Different books have different pictures of the same species, and sometimes I think they look very different (not the same). That tells this newcomer to be even more wary of thinking I know what I'm looking at! Time and experience do make a difference, however, and as with any hobby one knows more as you go along. One thing I learned is to take a specimen of common things you find and make a spore print. This book sorts them that way.
I do like this book best for its treatment of edibles. It lists a dozen or so that are "easy" to recognize and not likely to confuse with dangerous species. Of course if you don't see one JUST like the picture AND matches the details of the description, beware. Other books may differ on the edibility of these, or even offer some that this book says to avoid. So one must start by assuming all specimens are dangerous. That whittles the amatuer's selection down to those half-dozen or so kinds that all the books agree on. Nothing wrong with that! as I've found several of these 'basic' edibles already (morels, black trumpet, inkycap, puffball).
I've recommended this book to friends, and now do so to you, too.
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