Our Favorite Fungi Books By Our Support Team
| November 22, 2019
1.) Mushrooming without Fear The Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms
2.) The Mushroom Handbook
This comprehensive handbook on the mushroom will delight the natural historian and nature lover. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. More Reviews On Amazon
3.) Mushrooms of the World with Pictures to Color (Dover Nature Coloring Book)
Detailed captions accompany the full page drawings and provide scientific and common mushroom names countries of origin description of structure natural habitat growing conditions and even flavors of edible types. An introduction provides information on identification methods and the mushroom life cycle.
Page by page you’ll discover the beauty and diversity of different mushroom species found in deserts rain forests or common garden mulch. Best of all Mushrooms of the World allows you to participate in this invaluable learning experience by adding nature’s vibrant colors to botanically accurate illustrations.
4.) The Kingdom of Fungi
The fungi realm has been called the “hidden kingdom ” a mysterious world populated by microscopic spores gigantic mushrooms and toadstools and a host of other multicellular organisms ranging widely in color size and shape. The Kingdom of Fungi provides an intimate look at the world’s astonishing variety of fungi species from cup fungi and lichens to truffles and tooth fungi clubs and corals and jelly fungi and puffballs. This beautifully illustrated book features more than 800 stunning color photographs as well as a concise text that describes the biology and ecology of fungi fungal morphology where fungi grow and human interactions with and uses of fungi.
The Kingdom of Fungi is a feast for the senses and the ideal reference for naturalists researchers and anyone interested in fungi.
- Reveals fungal life as never seen before
- Features more than 800 stunning color photos
- Describes fungal biology morphology distribution and uses
- A must have reference book for naturalists and researchers
5.) The Living Forest A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods
From the leaves and branches of the canopy to the roots and soil of the understory the forest is a complex interconnected ecosystem filled with plants birds mammals insects and fungi. Some of it is easily discovered but many parts remain difficult or impossible for the human eye to see. Until now.
The Living Forest is a visual journey that immerses you deep into the woods. The wide ranging photography by Robert Llewellyn celebrates the small and the large the living and the dead and the seen and the unseen. You’ll discover close up images of owls hawks and turtles; aerial photographs that show herons in flight; and time lapse imagery that reveals the slow change of leaves. In an ideal blend of art and scholarship the 300 awe inspiring photographs are supported by lyrical essays from Joan Maloof detailing the science behind the wonder.
6.) The Complete Mushroom Hunter Revised Illustrated Guide to Foraging Harvesting and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms – Including new sections on growing your own incredible edibles and off-season collecting
In The Complete Mushroom Hunter Revised mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom hunting and identifying wild mushrooms mushroom safety and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff’s fascinating anecdotes from the field will make you an instant mycophile.
Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the Earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere from mountains and woodlands to urban and suburban parks to your own backyard.
The Complete Mushroom Hunter Revised will enrich your understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient critically relevant and useful body of knowledge. With great expertise Lincoff provides a complete overview of edible mushrooms: from the mushroom’s earliest culinary awakening through getting equipped for mushroom forays to preparing and serving the fruits of the foray wherever you live.
Inside you’ll find:
- A brief colorful history of mushroom hunting worldwide
- How to get equipped for a mushroom foray
- A completely illustrated guide to the common wild edible mushrooms and their poisonous look alikes with information of psychedelic and psychotherapeutic mushrooms
- An illustrated guide to medicinal mushrooms
- Where to find your fare and how to identify them
- How to prepare and serve your fungi
- Thirty delicious recipes
Five appendices offer even more mushroom knowledge with information on how to make mushroom artwork mushroom cultivation less common edible varieties and winter hunting; plus find an essential guide to major poisonous mushrooms symptoms of poisoning and treatment.
Whether you’re just starting out with the hobby or an experienced mycophile looking to add to your collection The Complete Mushroom Hunter Revised is your ideal guide.
7.) Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California
A comprehensive and user friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast from Monterey County to the Oregon border.
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast will help beginning and experienced mushroom hunters alike to find and identify mushrooms from common to rare delicious to deadly and interesting to beautiful. This user friendly reference covers coastal California from Monterey County to the Oregon border with full treatments of more than 750 species and references to hundreds more. With tips on mushroom collecting descriptions of specific habitats and biozones updated taxonomy and outstanding photography this guide is far and away the most modern and comprehensive treatment of mushrooms in the region. Each species profile pairs a photograph with an in depth description as well as notes on ecology edibility toxicity and look alike species. Written by mushroom identification experts and supported by extensive field work Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast is an indispensable guide for anyone curious about fungi. More Reviews On Amazon
8.) The Fungus Link An Introduction to Fungal Disease Including the Initial Phase Diet
So it is that the first book we know of to implicate fungus as the cause of debilitation and death has been completed. There is nothing more convincing than observing life threatening diseases frequently respond favorably to simple antifungal therapy. More Reviews On Amazon
9.) Fungus the Bogeyman The 35th Anniversary Edition
Life in Bogeydom is full of snot smells slime scum and other unspeakable things and Bogeymen live under the ground revelling in allthe nastiness imaginable. Briggs has created a whole new world in this sophisticated cartoon strip picture book for older children which will entice the most reluctant of readers into books. More Reviews On Amazon
10.) The Bacteria Book The Big World of Really Tiny Microbes
In this funny fact packed science book for kids readers will discover the bacteria viruses and other germs and microbes that keep our bodies and our world running.
Meet a glowing squid traveling fungus spores and much more in this dynamic and engaging book all about bacteria viruses and other germs and microbes. The Bacteria Book walks the line between “ew gross!” and “oh cool! ” exploring why we need bacteria and introducing readers to its microbial mates viruses fungi algae archaea and protozoa.
The Bacteria Book is a fun and informative introduction to a STEM subject that brings kids up close to the big world of tiny science. With remarkable photography kooky character illustrations and lots of fun facts this book uses real life examples of microbiology in action to show how tiny microbes affect us in big ways. More Reviews On Amazon
