Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California
Biographical Note: NOAH SIEGEL's field mycology skills are extensive - he has spent two decades seeking, photographing, identifying, and furthering his knowledge about all aspects of macrofungi. He has hunted...
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Biographical Note: Table of Contents: Introduction 7 What Are Mushrooms? 8 Humans and Ecology of Fungi 9 Fungi 10 The Redwood Coast 11 Trees of the Redwood Coast 12 Finding Mushrooms 16 Collecting Mushrooms 16 Identifying Mushrooms 16 Making Spore Prints 17 Tools of the Trade 17 Making Collections 17 Photographing Mushrooms 18 Collecting for the Table 18 Taxonomy and Cladistics 19 How to Read the Species Descriptions 20 A General Format of the Species Descriptions 20 Pictorial Key to the Major Sections 22 THE DESCRIPTIONS: 1 - Chanterelles and Gomphoids 29 2 - Amanita 38 3 - Lepiota and Allies 60 4 - Agaricus and Melanophyllum 79 5 - Dark-Spored Mushrooms 98 6 - Brown-Spored Decomposers 131 7 - Mycorrhizal Brown-Spored Mushrooms 154 8 - Cortinarius 172 9 - Entoloma and Allies 209 10 - Pluteus and Allies 226 11 - Russula and Lactarius 233 12 - Waxy Caps 275 13 - The White-Spored Multitude 302 14 - Pleurotoid Mushrooms 403 15 - Gilled Bolete Relatives 416 16 - Boletes 426 17 - Polypores and Allies 464 18 - Crust Fungi 489 19 - Tooth Fungi 496 20 - Coral and Club Mushrooms 511 21 - Puffballs, Earthballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, and Bird's Nests 533 22 - Truffles 548 23 - Jelly Fungi 554 24 - Morels, False Morels, and Elfin Saddles 558 25 - Cup Fungi 565 Review Quotes: Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast sets the standard for all future efforts. The coverage is all one could ask for, the text is clear and helpful, and the photographs are a joy to see. --GARY LINCOFF, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast is at a whole new level for regional mushroom guides. It is certainly a must-own for anyone that's serious about mushroom identification in California. --TOM BRUNS, professor of plant and micrbial biology at the University of California, Berkeley This is a wonderful and comprehensive guide to the intriguing mushrooms of coastal northern California. Well-researched, beautifully illustrated, and written with insight and humor! --ELSE C. VELLINGA, editor of Flora Agaricina Neerlandica This book sets a new standard for comprehensive regional mushroom identification guides. The photographs alone are worth the price of admission. --DAVID ARORA, author of Mushrooms Demystified Accomplished field mycologists/photographers Siegel and Schwarz have made the colorful and fascinating mushrooms of the redwood coast accessible through this indispensable new book. --DR. STEVEN TRUDELL, author of Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest |
Author: Siegel, Noah
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2016-08-09
BISAC: Science|Life Sciences|Biology|Nature|Plants|Fungi & Mushrooms|Nature|Reference|Reference|General|Science|Life Sciences|Mycology
Subjects: Mushrooms|California, Northern
Weight: 3.74 lbs
ISBN: 9781607748175
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781607748175
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