The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms: Helpful Tips for Mushrooming in the Field

When you're in the wild and you spot a nice-looking mushroom, how do you know if it is safe to eat? Question no more with the <i>The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms</i>. This tiny companion is the perfect book to bring along when foraging for delectable fungi. Inside its neatly arranged pages are fifty-two edible mushrooms as well as the mushrooms with which they are often confused, whether edible or toxic.<br><br>Beautiful photographs adorn the pages with mushrooms in the wild as well as picked, showing them from a multitude of angles. Study these photographs and you will become adept at recognizing edible and safe mushrooms. Even those who are unfamiliar with the mushroom forest can make a start at foraging with this instructional work, and, with the help of <i>The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms</i>, can become experts in no time.<br><br>Using practical symbol systems, distribution maps, and tips on picking, cleaning, cooking, and canning, the reader will also become familiar with a wide variety of wild mushrooms, including morels, black trumpets, chanterelles, sheep polypore, porcini, a variety of boletes, and many more. Grabbing this guide on the way out to go hunt for mushrooms will ensure a successful foraging experience.<br>