Mushrooms of the Northeast: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides) - Softcover

Marrone, Teresa; Sturgeon, Walt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591935911 ISBN 13: 9781591935919

Publisher: Adventure Publications, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Teresa Marrone is the author of a series of field guides and highly regarded books on wild foods. She has written for national and local magazines and has been foraging wild edibles for more than 30 years. Walt Sturgeon is a nationally known field mycologist with 40 years of mushrooming experience. He has served as Foray Chairman of the North American Mycological Association and has won awards for photography and contributions to amateur mycology.

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Adventure Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591935911
• ISBN 13: 9781591935919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288