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All that the rain promises, and more ... : a hip pocket guide to Western mushrooms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26375
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- Author
- Arora, David
- Publisher
- Berkeley : Ten Speed Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 A6a
- Author
- Arora, David
- Publisher
- Berkeley : Ten Speed Press
- Published Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- xxii, 259 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
- 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.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0898153883
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 A6a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The audubon society field guide to North American mushrooms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26234
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Lincoff, Gary H.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 04.1 L63m
- Author
- Lincoff, Gary H.
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Carol Nehring
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 926 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Series
- Audubon Society Field Guide Series
- Subjects
- Botany
- Identification
- Science
- Illustrations
- Mushroom
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0394519922
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 L63m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Plant Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0104
- Date
- 1960 – 1965
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0104
- Description
- Group of three mushrooms on dark green mottled base having five holes in it. Mushrooms with flat pale mauve top side and yellow under side with ivory stems. Signed on base "Lorenzens Lantz Nova Scotia - Russula Quelet", mushroom species .
1 image
- Title
- Plant Figurine
- Date
- 1960 – 1965
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 4.5 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- Group of three mushrooms on dark green mottled base having five holes in it. Mushrooms with flat pale mauve top side and yellow under side with ivory stems. Signed on base "Lorenzens Lantz Nova Scotia - Russula Quelet", mushroom species .
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- plant
- mushroom
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0104
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Plant Figurine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0105
- Date
- 1960 – 1965
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0105
- Description
- Group of four mushrooms on dark green mottled base having five holes in it. Mushrooms with pointed grey tops and ivory stems, brown under cap. Signed on base "Lorenzens Lantz Nova Scotia - coprinus Altramentaruis " mushroom species .
1 image
- Title
- Plant Figurine
- Date
- 1960 – 1965
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 8.3 x 4.5 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- Group of four mushrooms on dark green mottled base having five holes in it. Mushrooms with pointed grey tops and ivory stems, brown under cap. Signed on base "Lorenzens Lantz Nova Scotia - coprinus Altramentaruis " mushroom species .
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- miniatures
- plant
- mushroom
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0105
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potentially offensive content.
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