To most North Americans, it probably seems odd that a “Wildlife” publishing company would produce a book about fungi. But, as I learned a few years back, it isn’t so Read more
Mushrooms: The Natural and Human World of British Fungi Read More »
North America has a long tradition of producing excellently illustrated manuals on larger fungi and there is a new one maintaining that tradition, and equally as good, available on the
Ascomycete Fungi of North America: A Mushroom Reference Guide Read More »
Few polypores generate great interest among most mushroom hunters and so they usually are rather poorly represented in field guides (for instance, they comprise only 21 of the 465 species
Polypores of British Columbia (Fungi: Basidiomycota) Read More »
And the new regional mushroom guides keep coming. This attractive new guide to the mushrooms of the Rocky Mountains comes close on the heels of Vera Evenson’s Mushrooms of the Rocky
The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat Read More »
Boletes of Eastern North America (BENA) is basically a re-do of North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored Mushrooms (NAB), published in 2000 by the same authors and press, albeit
Boletes of Eastern North America Read More »
In 2006, Timber Press initiated a series of field guides for the Pacific Northwest with the publication of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest. Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and
Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada Read More »
Although the Preface states that This book is intended to be a field-durable guide to the wild mushrooms of Georgia…, I doubt whether many persons would take this hefty tome
Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont and Southern Appalachians: A Reference Read More »
If you don’t have time for reading, here’s the bottom line: anyone who has an interest in mushrooms should own this (actually these) big amazing book(s), regardless of whether you
Fungi of Temperate Europe Read More »
Seeing as how most polypores are too tough to eat, the group tends to get little respect from mushroom hunters in North America and, hence, little representation in our field
Polypores of the Mediterranean Region Read More »
Substantial changes have occurred in our understanding of Amanitas since the publication of David Jenkins’ 1986 book, Amanita of North America. The widespread use of DNA sequencing has brought many formerly
Amanitas of North America Read More »
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