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Mushrooms demystified : a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi

Identifies over two thousand species, answers common questions about mushrooms, and gives advice on collecting, preserving, and cooking with mushrooms
Print Book, English, ©1986
Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, ©1986
Identification
959 pages, 80 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780898151701, 9780898151695, 9780898151718, 0898151708, 0898151694, 0898151716
13702933
Fungophobia
What is a mushroom?
Mushrooms and the environment
Names and classification
Collecting mushrooms
Identification and terminology
How to use the keys
Questions about mushrooms
LBM's : little brown mushrooms
Habitats
Seventy distinctive mushrooms (a quick-reference check list)
Key to the major groups of fleshy fungi
Mushroom cookery
Mushroom toxins
What it all means (a short dictionary of scientific names)
Includes indexes