- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (16 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751327174
- ISBN-13: 978-0751327175
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,296,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This work provides an identification guide to the different varieties of mushroom, designed to be as simple and accurate as possible.
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ever wanted to go mushroom collecting and never found a usable guide book to give you accurate information? Then this is the book for you. Clear photographs and descriptions are laid out in an easy-to-use format. Pictures include overall appearance, sections through the fungi and size guides. Descriptions tell you the type of habitat favoured by each variety of mushroom and other similar species. One of the most reliable ways of identifying mushrooms is by the colour of their spores. Unlike many other books this information is included. So if you want to collect or just identify mushrooms this is one of the best books available at a reasonable price.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A Visual Treat of Mushrooms
20 May 2000
Format:Paperback
The pictures in this guide are incredible! The picture above pales in comparison to the actual book cover, and it is too bad that there has not been a picture of one of the pages included.
Each type of mushroom or fungus has its own half page section. The sections have a large and vivid pictures of the species. Did I mention that the pictures are incredible? Usually sections have supporting pictures such as top views and gill views of the mushrooms. It also gives species information, season availability, and dimensions in centimeters of the cap and the stem. The discussion in the section gives written information on description, occurrence, and similar species.
As far as edibility of mushrooms, this guide gives a symbol for the categories of edible, non-edible, and poisonous. This is really the only discussion of edibility, so this book is not a guide to eating mushrooms, but an overall guide to mushrooms.
The cover is close to being waterproof, which makes it excellent for taking into the field. The pages are high-quality paper. This book is a tremendous deal!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
If you buy only one mushroom field guide, this is the one!
23 Sep 1999
Format:Paperback
Excellent! This is the best mushroom field guide I have ever seen. This book shows sharp photos of each mushroom, as well as photos in cross section and of the underside. Photos are not of the mushroom in its natural habitat, but are on a white background, so each photo is well focused and well lit. Also includes a tiny photo or drawing of the mushroom in its natural habitat. Comprehensive-includes mushrooms that don't appear in my other two books. Mushrooms listed both by scientific and by popular names. Extremely conservative in the 'shrooms that it classifies as edible. Book is designed for the beginner ("What is a Mushroom?") as well as the advanced (spore chart). The quality of the book itself is very high; it is printed on excellent paper and stays open to a page when needed. It appears to be well bound and I think the paperback cover will look good even after many trips in the backpack.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
covers all the bases
12 July 2006
Format:Paperback
This DK Handbook is so easy to follow especially on a subject as vast as mushrooms! The layout is great. each page has one mushroom documented in a photograph, a sliced view and also an illustration...too perfect. also edibility. I wish DK would come out with this style of handbooks for trees, insects, etc. I would by them all!
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