Common Edible/Poisonous Mushro

Handy in-the-field identification guide. Features the foolproof five. Includes a useful identification flowchart. The northeastern united states is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms--some delicious, some deadly. This handy in-the-field guide offers identification information for some 50 mushrooms that mushroom hunters are most likely to encounter in the wild: parasol mushroom, delicious lactarius, sulphur shelf, giant puffball. It also features detailed photographs illustrating the characteristics to look for when identifying mushrooms and natural history information--where they grow, when they appear, and the various forms they take.