National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms

English

Series: The Audubon Society Pocket Guides

ISBN: 0679729844

EAN: 9780679729846

Category: Nature / Mushrooms

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 07/31/1990

Synopsis: TheNational Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushroomsis filled with distinct descriptions and detailed color photographs yet is compact enough to easily slip into the back pocket when on a mushroom-hunting excursion. This streamlined volume contains; an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 familiar North American mushrooms, an outline of identifying mushrooms characteristics, the basics of when and where to look for mushrooms and certain distinguishing qualities of poisonous mushrooms. This pocket guide is teeming with information on this class of fungi; full-color photographs and descriptive line drawings, engaging mushroom lore on each individual mushroom species, specific identifying mushroom features, notes and warnings on each species edibility and their poisonous lookalike counter-parts, geographical information and a guide to various mushroom family traits. Whether you are mushroom-hunting to photograph and paint them, studying them scientifically, gathering then for culinary purposes or just for the rewarding experience in itself, theNational Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushroomsis a handy reference guide to have by your side.

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National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.35 inches

Width: 6.05 inches

Length: 4.1 inches

Weight: 6.42 oz

Pages: 192