Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast
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Book Description
The 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 photos 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. This handy identification guide features the "foolproof five" and includes a useful identification flowchart.
About the Author
C. Leonard Fergus was a mycology professor at Pennsylvania State University. Charles Fergus is the author of "Trees of Pennsylvania" (0811720926), "Wildlife of Pennsylvania" (0811728994), "Natural Pennsylvania" (0811720381), and a host of other books about the natural world.
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