Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87489 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Synopsis
Presents a simple approach to collecting edible mushrooms. This work includes a field guide card.

Customer Reviews

Clear guidelines for confident eating
Clear, highly accessible guide - it cuts out all the mushrooms with gills and reduces the field to a group of readily identifiable, edible mushrooms. It includes clear guidelines, encouraging the reader to read the book twice before going out so that they are confident about the principles it explains. It gives 12 edible (UK) mushrooms with good quality images and clear rules for identification, rejecting lots of edible mushrooms which are harder for an amateur to identify with confidence. However, these 12 are reasonably common, There's even a folding field identification card included so that you don't have to carry the whole book out into the wilds but can be pretty sure before taking your trophies back home for the full check!

I think the book's a great idea, easy to read and opens the door to a great deal of fun hunting for edible fungi. Why not five stars? It's a pity it throws out things like shaggy ink caps which are still easy to identify but gilled.... but that is being picky! Supposedly, there's an associated website at www.mushrooming.co.uk but it won't open for me.

Torn book
Nice clear book, it's a shame the field identification card was stuck to the inside cover so carelessly using the ubiquitous gooey gristle. On separating I was left with a sticky patch and a torn inner cover.
Try Jiff (sorry Ciff) to remove the gue from the plastic case.