Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast

By C. Leonard Fergus and Charles Fergus

Handy in-the-field identification guideFeatures the "Foolproof Five"Includes a useful identification flowchart

The northeastern United States is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms--some delicious, some deadly. This handy in-the-field guide offers identification information for some 50 mushrooms that mushroom hunters are most likely to encounter in the wild: Parasol Mushroom, Delicious Lactarius, Sulphur Shelf, Giant Puffball. It also features detailed photographs illustrating the characteristics to look for when identifying mushrooms and natural history information--where they grow, when they appear, and the various forms they take.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081172641X
• ISBN13: 9780811726412
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.2"