topic:"Fungi" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: "Mushrooms appeal to all kinds of people ...and so will this handy pocket guide. Over 200 edible and poisonous mushrooms are depicted with simple checklists of their identifying features, as author David Arora celebrates the fun in fungi with the same engaging blend of wit and wisdom, fact and fancy, that has made his comprehensive guide, Mushrooms Demystified, the mushroom hunter's bible." -- back cover

Contents: Introduction -- How to use this book -- Format and terminology -- Spore color and spore prints --Collecting gear -- Seasonal occurrence -- Eating mushrooms -- Medicinal mushrooms --Consciousness-altering mushrooms -- Poisonous mushrooms -- Growing mushrooms at home -- Dyeing with mushrooms -- Mushrooms and kids -- Chanterelles -- Milk caps and Russulas -- Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms without a ring -- Amanita -- Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms with a ring -- Agaricus -- Miscellaneous dark-spored gilled mushrooms -- Boletes -- Polypores -- Teeth fungi -- Coral and club fungi -- Puffballs and earthstars -- Morels and false morels -- Other mushrooms -- Toward a mushroom hunting ethic -- Checklist and index to common names -- Index to scientific names -- Photo credits and acknowledgments.

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Description: A painting of a fungi - reddish orange top, green stem. Painted by E. Anderson, A.C.C. Camp. Taken from an album compiled by Norman B. Sanson, Banff naturalist (PD2(2)-36).

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Description: A painting of a fungi - reddish orange top, green stem. Painted by E. Anderson, A.C.C. Camp. Taken from an album compiled by Norman B. Sanson, Banff naturalist (PD2(2)-36).