National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Familiar Mushrooms

National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Familiar Mushrooms
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780679729846
ISBN-13 : 0679729844
Rating : 4/5 (844 Downloads)

Book Synopsis National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Familiar Mushrooms by : National Audubon Society

Download or read book National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Familiar Mushrooms written by National Audubon Society and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1990-07-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portable, comprehensive field guide—brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket—from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. 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, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms is a handy reference guide to have by your side.


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