National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (National Audubon Society Field Guides)

This, like other Audubon Field Guides, is compact *700 pages plus), packed with information and beautiful photos. It is well-bound on high quality stock. I bought for our oldest daughter who has an interest in mycology. I can also give a five star review for the Trees of North America volume and the Rocks and Minerals book. I find myself referencing these several times a week. The Mushrooms book has been out of print , I think, and was selling for outrageous prices on both Amazon and eBay. Glad to see it's back!

A must have for serious study. I like this version for ALL the content, details, pictures, & portable size. It's a bit large to carry in my daily foraging pack (see picture), but small enough that it will easily be back at the car for further research after a day's outing if needed. The 1st 25% ish is pictures (see pictures), the remainder is all the accompanying details (see picture). Overall a great book to have to help learn this fascinating world of mycology.

Awesome book, nice large, color photos. Tons of info. Well organized. Perfect.

Lots of descriptive photos and illustrations

Great tool to have while foraging for mushrooms. Easy to read and understand and nice pictures and illustration. Details in identifying mushrooms in the forrest. A true must have.

An amateur interest in the natural world inevitably leads to a growing collection of books and field guides, and this is especially true for the amateur mycologist. With around 11,000 named species of mushrooms in the US, no one book can be a complete guide, and to make things more difficult, species are constantly being reclassified. (To make things worse, a lot of the mushroom guides sold here are reprints of older books with out of date information, or books written for the European market, where there is a very different range of species. ) The beginner is best served with a simple field guide to the more common species, while the serious amateur will eventually pick up a copy of Arora’s Mushrooms Demystified, an encyclopedic guide to over 2,000 species. The NAS field guide falls somewhere in the middle with 762 color photographs of individual mushrooms, a section containing detailed descriptions of the mushrooms, their habitat, and other details, as well as a guide to mushroom features, spore prints, and more.This is a very good book, but it lacks the detail of more exhaustive texts like the Arora book, and the photos, while good, show only one example of each species. I would definite not recommend using it as my sole guide to edible mushrooms- for that, I recommend Michael Kuo’s “100 Edible Mushrooms,” or for absolute beginners, “How To Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying” by Frank Hyman. It’s also too big and heavy to carry in your pocket every time you go out in the woods- for that I’d recommend Arora’s “All That The Rain Promises and More.” Instead, this is a book to carry in your day pack on hikes, or perhaps to leave at camp, in your summer cabin, or in your car, for consultation when you return from a hike with samples or photos of unknown species.

These guides are great! Good pics, nicely organized, reputable info, small enough to carry but big enough to be useful. I like that the cover is flexible, so it's less likely to get damaged than a hardcover book.

Worth every cent I spent.This book has wonderful diagrams and the info is full of facts. My GD carried it with her on our nature mushroom hunt.Another book I would like to give 10 ⭐️ if could.

Great illustrations, summary of mushrooms, and good layout. A fun thing to browse through when bored or just curious about mushrooms you see, (but don't touch!)

Considerando que hay cerca de 2 millones de variedades, esta guía abarca bien a las principales y explica de manera detallada sus características.

Esse guia é excelente, algumas espécies eu encontrei aqui na Amazônia e tem outras semelhantes também, curti muito o aprendizado, ótimo guia para campos.

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Buen precio y excelente tiempo de entrega