Mushroom Finder: Identifying Fungi in North America(Nature Study Guides)

Begin to identify mushrooms across North America with this pocket-size guide. If you’re fascinated by fungi or the practice of foraging, then learning to identify mushrooms is essential. While this is not a guide to edible mushrooms, Mushroom Finder by Jacob Kalichman is a great tool for getting started. The handy, easy-to-use booklet is your first step in identifying mushrooms, helping to provide you with a general identification to mushrooms that are fungus-like in appearance throughout the continental United States and Canada. Not your typical mushroom guide, the booklet is aimed at breadth rather than depth—so you’re likely to find the content that you’re looking for, but you might not be able to identify a given fungus to its specific species or genus. To that end, Mushroom Finder provides a dichotomous key to identifying fungi. Simply answer a series of simple questions about the location, shape, or appearance of the mushroom, including its cap, spores, and stem. Along the way, professional illustrations by Roo Vandegrift help you arrive at a positive general identification. This guide is applicable to mushrooms that are or look like a fungus, that are at least 5mm tall or wide, that have feelable thickness in all directions (unlike leaf spots), and that are still fresh. Book Features: Step-by-step guide to identifying fungi More than 300 types of fungi Professional line illustrations with key markings for identification Small format that fits into a pocket or pack

Table of Contents:
About the Author/Illustrator How to Use This Book Glossary Finder Key Begin Here (Identification Guide) Index Other Books in the Pocket-Size Finder Series

About the Author :
Jacob Kalichman is a field mycologist from California and Tennessee. While studying logic at Stanford University in 2010, he became devoted as an amateur to wild mushroom identification and photography. With an ongoing interest in identifying gilled mushrooms in difficult genera, he has also taken up digesting and sharing updates in mycological taxonomy. He compiled a compendium of generic names of agarics and Agaricales, published as a paper in 2020 and continually updated. He also maintains suggested common names and associated guidelines for North American fungi. He wrote the current edition of the National Audubon Society Mushrooms of North America. Roo Vandegrift, PhD, is a queer scientist and illustrator. He received his doctorate in mycology from the University of Oregon and is best known for his research in tropical ecology and the fungal family Xylariaceae. As a National Geographic Explorer, Roo coordinated a multi-disciplinary expedition to the Los Cedros Biological Reserve in Ecuador, and he is producing the forthcoming documentary film Marrow of the Mountain. He is currently the Plant Pathologist at the USDA Plant Inspection Station in San Diego.