Appalachian Mushrooms

A Field Guide

Walter E. Sturgeon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2018
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2325-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	550 color photos
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mykologie
ISBN-10	0-8214-2325-8 / 0821423258
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2325-7 / 9780821423257
Zustand	Neuware