An informative and accessible choice for fans of Andrea Beatty’s Ada Twist, Scientist and Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Each country has its own idiosyncrasies – its own selection of things traditionally eaten and things traditionally rejected. In the 1980s I was a maverick because as an organic market gardener, my work was mostly seen as irrelevant to society, producing food that was expensive and for only a few people.

Before the listing of 600, there are a few introductory pages on the nature of fungi, their role in the ecosystem, distribution and so on, plus a four page high level overview of the various phenotypes with representative photo for each class.The Book of Fungi takes 600 of the most remarkable fleshy fungi from around the world and reproduces each at its actual size, in full colour, and accompanied by a scientific explanation of its distribution, habitat, association, abundance, growth form, spore colour and edibility.

In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. The authors below would certainly say so, and fortunately they’ve written some excellent books to introduce you to fungi.Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.

Shelley Evans was conservation officer for the British Mycological Society for ten years, and is on the executive committee of the European Council for the Conservation of Fungi and the IUCN world specialist group for fungi.

In this beautiful book, leading fungal biologists Lynne Boddy and Ali Ashby bring you closer to 300 species of mushrooms and lichens through fascinating facts, mushroom datasets, and detailed illustrations. The bit that I'm on is whether nature is red in tooth and claw and how Darwinism can be interpreted as right or left wing. He is a member of the Council of CCW (the Countryside Council for Wales), where his special interest is in fungi conservation (he is a Member of the British Mycological Society) and the management of National Nature Reserves in Wales.

One can completely ignore this section without missing out, but its nice to make it easy for readers who want to dig even deeper. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. There is a fungal predator, for instance, that hunts its prey with lassos, and several that set traps, including one that entices sows by releasing the pheromones of a wild boar. Discover the kingdom of fungi with Keith Seifert’s book, for indeed, fungi are a different kingdom to plants and animals. Written by one of Europe's leading mycologists and horticultural scientists, Stefan Buczacki, and illustrated by two of the world's leading natural history illustrators, Chris Shields and Denys Ovenden, this is the ultimate field guide for mushroom and toadstool lovers.

Fascinated by Fungi is an easy-to-follow introduction to a complex and largely unexplored kingdom of life and the history, mystery, facts and fiction born out of the fascinating foibles of mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi. After going on a local mushroom foraging walk the guide suggested I read this and quite a few other books. Once you know the family group of your mushroom, you can try to match it up visually by comparing it to photographs in full identification guides. It combines one of the most readable and deliciously idiosyncratic accounts of what fungi are, where they come from and what they do for us with an excellent identification guide almost uniquely based on habitats.