Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast

Handy in-the-field identification guide

Features the "Foolproof Five"

Includes a useful identification flowchart
The northeastern United States is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms--some delicious, some deadly. This handy in-the-field guide offers identification information for some 50 mushrooms that mushroom hunters are most likely to encounter in the wild: Parasol Mushroom, Delicious Lactarius, Sulphur Shelf, Giant Puffball. It also features detailed photographs illustrating the characteristics to look for when identifying mushrooms and natural history information--where they grow, when they appear, and the various forms they take.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 03/01/2003
ISBN: 9780811726412
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.58w x 0.28d