Mushrooms of the Northeast: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms

by Teresa Marrone, Walt Sturgeon

Overview

Begin to Identify Mushrooms with this Great Visual Guide for the Northeastern United States!

Mushrooming is a popular and rewarding pastime—and it’s one that you can enjoy with the right information at hand. Mushrooms of the Northeast is the field guide to get you started. The region-specific book utilizes an innovative, user-friendly format that can help you identify mushrooms by their visual characteristics. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing the details to give you confidence in the field. The information, written by foraging experts Teresa Marrone and Walt Sturgeon, is accessible to beginners but useful for even experienced mushroom seekers.

Learn about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the Top Edibles and Top Toxics sections, you'll begin to learn which are the edible wild mushrooms and which to avoid.

Get this field guide, jam-packed with information, and start identifying the mushrooms you find.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591936312
Publisher:	Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/08/2016
Series:	Mushroom Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	798,603
File size:	60 MB
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About the Author

Teresa Marrone has been gathering and preparing wild edibles for three decades--and writing about them for 25 years. She is the author of more than a dozen outdoors-themed books, including the Wild Berries&Fruits Field Guide series (currently available for four regions of the U.S.) and numerous cookbooks featuring wild foods. She lives in Minneapolis with husband, Bruce, and enjoys shooting photos of mushrooms, berries and all things wild in the area surrounding their property abutting Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Walt Sturgeon is a nationally recognized field mycologist who has 40 years of experience with wild mushrooms, primarily in eastern North America. He has served as President of the Ohio Mushroom Society and Vice President and Foray Chairman of the North American Mycological Association. An award-winning photographer with photos in numerous field guides, he is also the author of Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America and Mushrooms and Macro Fungi of Ohio and the Midwestern States. Walt has received the North American Mycological Association's Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology and the Northeast Mycological Foray's Friend of the Amateur award. He is married to Trish and resides in East Palestine, OH.

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Top Edibles

Cauliflower Mushrooms

Sparassis spathulata, Sparassis americana

Many books show pictures of this mushroom in a basket, on a plate, or being displayed proudly in someone's hands. The first reason is to show the impressive size that this mushroom reaches, but the second may be that hunters who find this delicacy aren't willing to show anyone exactly where in the woods they found it!

Habitat: Cauliflower Mushrooms are saprobes, getting their nutrients from the buried roots of dying and dead trees. Found alone or in groups in mixed woods next to deciduous and coniferous trees.

Description: This large, brain-like cluster mushroom is easy to recognize. It is made up of a mass of creamy white to tan-colored folds growing from a branching base. Some describe it as looking like a pile of egg noodles. Large examples may be up to 12 inches across, but most specimens are much smaller. This mushroom doesn't have gills or teeth but a smooth surface on one side of the folded flesh to release its spores. Two species are found in our area; both look similar and both are highly sought-after edibles.

S. spathulata

Table of Contents

Introduction

• About This Book
• What Is a Mushroom?
• How to Look at Mushrooms
• Eating Mushrooms
• Digging Deeper into Mycology
• How to Use This Book
• Basic Categories
• Top Edibles
• Top Toxics
• Mushrooms Grouped by Type
• Cap & Stem with Gills
• Cap & Stem with Pores
• Atypical Caps
• Shelf with Pores
• Shelf with Gills
• Shelf/Other
• Spherical Mushrooms
• Coral and Club Fungi
• Miscellaneous Mushrooms
• Helpful Resources and Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Authors