Summary
"From one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters, Walter E. Sturgeon, comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia. Edibility and toxicity, habitat, ecology, and detailed diagnostic features of... Full description
- Cautionary note
- Introduction
- Mushroom identificaiton
- How to use this book. Gilled mushrooms ; non-gilled fungi
- Amanita
- Russula
- Milk mushrooms
- Medium to large white-spored mushrooms with a waxy texture
- Small white-spored mushrooms with a waxy texture
- Medium to large white-spored terrestrial mushrooms
- Other white-spored mushrooms
- Colored-spored mushrooms
- Boletes
- Polypores
- Chanterelles and allies
- Club-like and coral-like fungi
- Spine fungi
- Puffballs and related fungi
- Mushrooms with cup-shaped or flat fruiting bodies
- Jelly and rubbery fungi
- Morels and false morels.