Publisher's Synopsis
- Popular, proven format: the first edition (9781591934172) has sold about 33,000 copies
- Market: Everyone from the casual mushroom-picker to the serious forager
- Not intimidating: geared toward the average forager with species organized by shape, then color, for beginning to identify common wild mushrooms
- More than 400 mushrooms with full-page photos and need-to-know details for easy identification
- Spotlight on edibles that can be safely and easily identified, as well as highly toxic mushrooms
- Authors with extensive foraging experience-write and lecture on the topic
- Extreme value: massive information for $16.95
- Information applicable to the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
- Review of the first edition: "This is an excellent first choice for your mushroom library." (Illinois Mycological Association, October 2014)
