The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms (eBook)

The Beginners Guide to Mushroomsis your ultimate guide to mycology. Whether youve never picked a mushroom before in your life or youve been cultivating mushrooms at home for ages, the expert advice in this comprehensive mushroom manual will transform your practice. Never before have mushrooms generated so much interest, for their health benefits and medicinal properties, as well as a new understanding of their crucial role in a healthy environment and ability to regenerate damaged ones. If you are a newcomer, mycology, or the study of mushrooms and other fungi, can seem daunting. While other field guides are geared toward experts with advanced knowledge or regional in scope and aimed at only a few easy-to-recognize mushrooms, The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms by veteran mycologists Britt A. Bunyard and Tavis Lynch is a complete reference and guidebook to get you started identifying, cultivating, cooking, and preserving mushrooms.The Beginners Guide to Mushroomsopens with important basics about wild mushrooming and how to use the book. Information about what fungi are and their role in the environment and around the home is provided in brief and very understandable terms. Basic wild mushroom anatomy is discussed along with how to identify mushrooms and various characteristics to look forof great importance if you are interested in learning how to recognize edible wild speciesas well as dangerous look-alikes. The guide then covers:All the major groups of wild mushrooms, pointing out habitat, region, and notable characteristicslarge photographs with easy-to-view characteristics facilitate correct identification.Mushroom cultivationwith easy-to-follow illustrated instructions, learn how to grow mushrooms at home, including how to collect wild specimens and domesticate them.Culinary uses and how to preserve wild mushrooms to be enjoyed in the kitchen all year round. Begin your wonderful exploration of wild mushrooms with this accessible yet thorough beginners guide.