Mushrooms Demystified

This is an exhaustive treatise on just about every fungus known to exist in North America. It's a big, thick paperback with info on individual species as well as how fungi lives and tips on cooking. Mushroom hunters tend to be nutty and David Arora is no exception; his dedication is total and he knows that it's a strange obsession. There's some humor in there as well. Alas this won't be useful for helping me initially ID a mushroom, but will instead be used to confirm or eliminate a suspect. It doesn't have enough color plates that are organized by color or type for that. I think I'll have to get the Audubon guide after all.

Just a little large for a field guide, but it still gets taken out into the field as the most comprehensive of all 'how to identify' book on mushrooms and fungi. A great reference book.

Very Good Mushroom Book, Highly Recommend.
See also "All The Rain Promises and More" by the same author. These books have helpful page references between each other.

Actually, I will be reading this for a long long time.

It is the "Opus Maximus" of Wild Mushrooms.

Media Type:Book. SUBJECT: 1. Mushrooms -- California -- Identification. 2. Mushrooms -- Pacific States -- Identification.