Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast

Handy in-the-field identification guideFeatures the "Foolproof Five"Includes a useful identification flowchartThe northeastern United States is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms--some delicious, some deadly. This handy in-the-field guide offers identification information for some 50 mushrooms that mushroom hunters are most likely to encounter in the wild: Parasol Mushroom, Delicious Lactarius, Sulphur Shelf, Giant Puffball. It also features detailed photographs illustrating the characteristics to look for when identifying mushrooms and natural history information--where they grow, when they appear, and the various forms they take.

• | Author: C. Leonard Fergus
• | Publisher: Stackpole Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 081172641X
• | ISBN-13: 9780811726412