How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms

By: Frank Hyman

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Synopsis: With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question &“Can I eat it?&”, most of the books on the subject are dry, dense, and written by mycologists for other mycologists. Frank Hyman to the rescue! How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying is the book for anyone who walks in the woods and would like to learn how to identify just the 29 edible mushrooms they&’re likely to come across. In it, Hyman offers his expert mushroom foraging advice, distilling down the most important information for the reader in colorful, folksy language that&’s easy to remember when in the field. Want an easy way to determine if a mushroom is a delicious morel or a toxic false morel? Slice it in half – &“if it&’s hollow, you can swallow,&” Hyman says. With Frank Hyman&’s expert advice and easy-to-follow guidelines, readers will be confident in identifying which mushrooms they can safely eat and which ones they should definitely avoid.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 256 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781635863338
Related ISBNs:: 9781635863321
Publisher:: Storey Publishing, LLC
Date of Addition:: 01/04/23
Copyrighted By:: Frank Hyman.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Outdoors and Nature, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.