Product Description

This handy pocket-sized guide provides quick, accurate and easy identification of over 200 European fungi species. Identifying colours and symbols, it classifies the species according to shape. It contains 320 colour photos that show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. It also features 320 graphics that highlight the typical identifying features of each species, and a calendar wheel, which helps identify the time of year when each species can be found.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8572 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

great at a glance...but not very good
At first glance, this book appears to be great. It has an easy to understand layout, lots of detailed descriptions, and a handy plastic cover to keep it clean- perfect for chucking in a rucksack while you're off mushroom hunting.
However, so many of the mushrooms I've found while out and about haven't been in the book. It seems to include very rare fungi but not ones which seem to be very common in this country! So now I'm going to have to invest in a new one. Great book if you want to read about mushrooms but not very good if you actually want to identify them.

Great but not all in there(!)
This is a fantastic book. I love it! The plastic cover makes it excellent for outside use. It covers most of the more common mushrooms and the descriptions are easy to follow and exciting to identify your new finds. I would thoroughly recommend this book for people who like myself are just beginning a new fascination with mushroom hunting. A more comprehensive mushroom encyclopedia is necessary too for identifying those musrhooms that aren't covered in this book. Buy it, use it, find them, cook them.

Useful field guide
This book is great within its own niche - namely a field guide that be carried around by someone who already knows a little bit about mushrooms to help identify finds while outdoors. My copy stays in the car so is always near at hand when I'm out and about.

It has a number of nice features - photos are good, it has a useful visual calendar of when the mushroom might be found, and when it refers to a defining feature that is illustrated, there is a number in the text that refers to a numbered pointer on the picture which makes it very clear what is being referred to.

This is not a book for those just getting started, and I would always rely on a comprehensive guide like Roger Phillip's Mushrooms back at home. But it's a handy text to have in your mushroom book portfolio.