Walter E. Sturgeon

Appalachian Mushrooms (eBook, ePUB)

A Field Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters—Walter E. Sturgeon—comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia. Edibility and toxicity, habitat, ecology, and detailed diagnostic features of the disparate forms they take throughout their life cycles are all included, enabling the reader to identify species without the use of a microscope or chemicals. Appalachian Mushrooms is unparalleled in its accuracy and currency, from its detailed photographs to descriptions based on the most advanced classification information available, including recent DNA studies that have upended some mushrooms' previously accepted taxonomies. Sturgeon celebrates more than 400 species in all their diversity, beauty, and scientific interest, going beyond the expected specimens to include uncommon ones and those that are indigenous to the Appalachian region. This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780821446393
• Artikelnr.: 54340601

Autorenporträt

Walt Sturgeon is a field mycologist with over forty years of experience studying and identifying mushrooms. His photos of mushroom and fungi, some award-winning, can be seen in numerous mushroom field guide publications, three of which he coauthored. One of these, Mushrooms of the Northeast, was awarded the best field guide of 2016 by the National Outdoor Writers Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Cautionary Note
vii Preface
ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Mushroom Identification xv How to Use This Book
—Gilled Mushrooms xvii —Non-Gilled Fungi xix Amanita 1 Russula 21 Milk Mushrooms 35 —Lactarius and Lactifluus Medium to Large White-Spored Mushrooms with a Waxy Texture
63 —Hygrophorus Small White-Spored Mushrooms with a Waxy Texture
71 —Hygrocybe, Gliophorus, and Humidicutis Medium to Large White-Spored Terrestrial Mushrooms 87 —Tricholoma and Melanoleuca Other White-Spored Mushrooms 101 Colored-Spored Mushrooms 173 Boletes 245 Polypores 303 Chanterelles and Allies 355 Club-Like and Coral-Like Fungi 367 Spine Fungi 389 Puffballs and Related Fungi 401 Mushrooms with Cup-Shaped or Flat Fruiting Bodies 419 Jelly and Rubbery Fungi 435 Morels and False Morels 445 Glossary 453 Mushroom Organizations 455 References 457 Index of scientific names 459 Index of common names and general index 467