An introduction to mushrooms with tips for identifying different kinds.

A must-have for mushroom hunters in the northeast The Northeast is one of the best places to find mushrooms; they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada is a compact, beautifully illustrated guide packed with descriptions and photographs of more than 400 of the region's most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms. The geographic range covered by the book...

What can smell like bubble gum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by humans, and even help create rain? The answer is mushrooms! From their hidden networks underground to the fruiting body above, mushrooms can do incredible things. But, don't call them plants-mushrooms are fungi. They're more closely related to animals like you! Through lyrical text and colorful, detailed artwork, the wonderful, mysterious, and sometimes bizarre...

This book is an identification guide for common North American mushrooms geared especially for those who would like to sort the edible mushrooms from the inedible. The book begins with a brief introduction of several pages that describes how to use the guide, some common fallacies about determining whether a mushroom is poisonous, and some general cooking suggestions for mushrooms. The book is then divided into two main sections covering the gilled...

Become an Expert on Mushroom Growing and Make a Business Out of It! The market's demand for mushrooms is huge. Millions and millions of mushrooms are sold every day around the world. Experts on nutrition agree that mushrooms are a superfood. Studies have shown that mushrooms can lower your bad cholesterol levels, support your immune system, and even protect you from cancer and various neurodegenerative diseases. Fungiculture, or the cultivation of...

This book enriches you with an in-depth understanding of the use, effect, and benefits of magic mushrooms. It goes deep and wide into answering almost every question you may have concerning magic mushroom. Magic mushrooms may be risky or beneficial to humans, depending on how it's being used and the supervision of medical personnel who has the knowledge of magic mushrooms. That being said, they are also natural wonders of our planet that we would...

"One of American Institute of Graphic Arts' Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021" Lawrence Millman is a mycologist and author of numerous books, including Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Last Places, Fascinating Fungi of New England, and At the End of the World. He has done mycological work in places as diverse as Greenland, Honduras, Iceland, Panama, the Canadian Arctic, Bermuda, and Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has documented 321...

Harry persuades his classmates to sneak through the playground fence during lunchtime recess to view some unusual mushrooms.

"Nominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship" "Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes" Michael J. Hathaway is professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of the award-winning Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China. He is a member of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group. How the prized matsutake mushroom is...

When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.