- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Collins; (Reissue) edition (6 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0004722701
- ISBN-13: 978-0004722702
- Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 913,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The only truly pocket-sized photographic guide to mushrooms and toadstools of Britain and Europe.
This Collins Gem is being reissued in flexibinding, providing the durability of a hardback with the flexibility of a paperback. The stylish new cover design will enlilven this and 70 other bestselling Gems.
There are 4000 species of mushroom and toadstool in Britain and Europe. Larger umbrella-shaped fungi with a cap and stem are known as mushrooms if they are edible and toadstools if they are poisonous.Collins Gem Mushrooms and Toadstools describes over 230 species which are to be commonly found.
Each mushroom or toadstool entry includes:
A photograph and clear description of what it looks like
Details of size, habitat and season when it can be found
An indication of whether it is edible or poisonous
The names of similar species with which the mushroom or toadstool could be confused, and details of the differences between them
From the Back Cover
The only truly pocket-sized photographic guide to mushrooms and toadstools, ideal for taking out into the field
Describes 236 species commonly found in Britain and Europe
Gives information on appearance, habitat, season, and whether the species is edible or poisonous
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66 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a good pocket-sized guide, well illustrated,
By DL (Gower, Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Collins Gem - Mushrooms and Toadstools (Paperback)
This little guide identifies a wide selection of funghi by reference to excellent photographs - much better than many of the artists' representations in some of the larger, dearer and more scholarly books.
There are short,sharp details about habitat, season and something of each specimen's histology. The book errs on the side of caution when dealing with edibility - so this is a book which could be given to a keen young explorer without too much risk of poisoning! We keep a copy in the foraging basket, and refer to the more heavyweight volumes when we get home. It has much to recommend it.
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