Mushrooms And Fungi

[Andrew Russ 31]

Does anyone have a good guide to edible shrooms/fungi. a Web link or book reference would be helpful. I'm looking for a guide I can pop in my pocket while out and about preferably with picture.

[slip lead 862]

I'm shore there are plenty of books out there, but you better be quick, because the f#####g gready b######s are striping the forests on an industrial scale, and selling it in London for crazy money.

[David K 172]

It's always best not to rely on one book but I think The River Cottage Handbook, Mushrooms by John Wright is good beginners book. This isn't a comprehensive guide to everything out there but he focuses on the common edibles you would probably find on a walk and the dangerous ones you could confuse them with. He has a witty style of writing so its a good read as well, with a few recipes at the back of the book. It's small enough to carry with you and the photographs/descriptions are excellent

 

A lot of books tend to give you way too many fungi to look at and it easy to be put off but I found it is best to become really good at identifying a handful of tasty ones and leave the rest alone.

 

Another great book which really does cover fungi extensively is Mushrooms by Roger Phillips considered to be the godfather of Mushroom identification, I have this one at home.

[villaman 9,979]

Same as David k

[mark williams 7,549]

I have Roger Philips "Wild Food" which covers Mushroom foraging very well but also covers many wild plants,sea shore, wines, wild medicine etc, etc, etc. You should be able to check it out on Amazon or such like,- excellent book.

 

atb.

Edited December 17, 2014 by mark williams

[mushroom 12,352]

Best get a book and go out looking with either a guide or a mate who knows what they are doing.

 

Golden rule when in doubt. Fuuck it off

[Arry 18,481]

Try this site

 

http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/

 

A field guide in colour o Mushrooms by Mirko Svrcek

 

al so any mushroom book by Peter Jodan

 

Cheers Arry