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Mushrooms
Code: 047003

A superbly illustrated encyclopaedia of British and European mushrooms and other fungi.

The culmination of over thirty years' work, this authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with the most up-to-date information and original photographs. Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, Mushrooms contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and gives the latest scientific and English common names for each species. The comprehensive descriptions detail physiology of the cap, stem, flesh, gills, and spores; typical habitat, and edibility, as well as current ecological information on endangered species.

Having sold more than 750,000 copies in Europe of his previous title on mushrooms, Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe, Roger Phillips' latest work once again sets the benchmark. Nobody with an interest in the subject can afford to be without this essential illustrated mycological encyclopedia.

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Contents Reviews Specification Author

Introduction
Visual index
Glossary

Basidiomycetes -
Mushrooms with gills
Mushrooms with primitive gills
Mushrooms and fungi with pores
Fungi with spines
Stomach fungi
Bird's nest fungi
Stinkhorns
Club and spindle fungi
Coral fungi
Jelly fungi

Ascomycetes -
Morels
Saddle fungi
Cup fungi
Club-shaped fungi
Finger and disc fungi
Truffles
Spots and crusts

"Roger Phillips has written the best mushroom book I know: the sublime taxonomic accuracy of his descriptions and photographs, combined with an evangelical and infections passion for the subject, will make an instant mycophile of anyone who picks it up" Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

"A masterpiece of identification" David Bellamy

"Classy book...An unsurpassed reference guide." Jackie Foottit, Hull Daily Mail

"Sets the benchmark for works of mushroom identification...the essential encyclopedia for mushroom hunters and anyone interested in the subject." Country Smallholding

"To call it the mushroomers' bible is to understate the reverence enthusiasts have for it..." The London Review of Books

"Comprehensive guide to the fungi of Britain... Just in time for the mushroom season." Gardens Illustrated

"This is the ideal book for any enthusiast who wants to know more." Daily Mail

"A long-awaited update to a popular identification guide...this new edition is most welcome. This is a fine book" The Garden

Author: Roger Phillips
Publication date: 2006
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 189 x 246 mm
Pages: 384
Illustrations: Full-colour photographs
ISBN: 0330442376
EAN: 9780330442374
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Roger Phillips is an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning thirty years. He has consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and has wrtten more than 20 books dedicated to this purpose.

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