People love mushrooms. They want to pick them and eat them. but when they get home and try to check them, the fears crowd in. The reference books are vague. Too many dangerous look-alikes. Is the colour in that photograph exaggerated? A field mushroom suddenly seems worryingly like a Destroying Angel….the mushrooms are all discarded.
Here is a mushrooming guide with a totally new, positive approach. Forget all the other 500 species. You only need to know these twelve. And you need to know them fully, without a shadow of a doubt.
Alex Schwab's mushrooming rules are few but they are fixed rules. His key identification points leave no room for uncertainty. And he promises you these mushrooms will all taste delicious.
Mushrooming without fear for the first time.
Table of Content
How to use this guide 8
The mushrooming without fear method 9
What does ‘edible’ mean?
Learn to leave a mushroom
Look-alike poisonous species
The tools of the trade
Worm-infested mushrooms
Cutting or pulling?
Raw mushrooms
What is a mushroom? 12
Tubes, spines, ridges and gills 15
Tubes 16
Spines 17
Ridges 18
Gills. 20
Comparing ridges and gills 24
Mushrooming without Fear
Mushrooms with tubes 29
Cep or Penny Bun Bolete 30
Red Cracked Bolete 34
Dotted Stemmed Bolete 38
Larch Bolete 44
Slippery Jack 48
Bay Bolete 52
Birch Bolete 58
Mushrooms with ridges 63
Chanterelle 64
Trumpet Chanterelle 68
Mushrooms with spines 73
Hedgehog Fungus 74
Mavericks 79
Morel 80
Common Puffball 88
Hen of the Woods 92
Horn of Plenty 96
Cauliflower Mushroom 100
For those who want to know
more about mushrooms with gills
Mushrooms with gills 109
Field Mushroom 110
Wood Blewit 116
Shaggy Ink Cap 120
Parasol 124
Shaggy Parasol 130
Oyster Mushroom 134
St George’s Mushroom 138
Charcoal Burner 142
Amethyst Deceiver 148
Background
Trees and mushrooms 152
The mushrooming season 154
Handling, storage and cooking 154
Fascinating folklore 157
Index 159
About the author
Alexander Schwab grew up in Switzerland and was awarded a Masters Degree in philosophy and history at Aberdeen University. His main interests are all aspects of fishing, hunting and mushrooming. He now lives in New Zealand and when not mushrooming, fishing or hunting, he is thinking or writing about them.
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