Fengu American Mushroom

There is one book, peer-reviewed and published by a university press and used by tens of thousands of Americans for nearly two decades, that actually enables beginners to identify the best, most common, safest, most delicious species of edible wild mushrooms! Now in its ninth printing, this is the long-proven, best-selling mushroom book specifically designed to answer the question, "Can I eat it?"—even for the novice! 21 years and hundreds of thousands of wild mushroom meals since its debut, this remains the definitive work: sometimes imitated but never bettered, and selling more copies year after year. 70 recipes.

By Alan & Arleen Bessette and David W. Fischer 1997, Syracuse Univ. Press This four-pound, 582-page book is encyclopedic in scope and in its organization. It includes 642 color photos and innovative keys to some 1, 500 species. (For the purposes of this book, the "Northeast" is east of the Rockies and from Tennessee and North Carolina northward.) 7 x 10 inches, 582 pages, 642 color photos.

Mushrooms Demystified By David Arora 1986, Ten Speed Press This is an enormously popular book, designed for the West Coast and with a limited number of color photos, but it has extensive keys that also cover a good number of eastern U.S. species. 6 x 9 inches, 1, 020 pages, 750 b&w photos, 200 color photos.

Morels By Michael Kuo 2005, Univ. of Michigan Press A definitive book about most mushroom hunters' favorite mushroom: the delicious morel. Over 200 color photos. About 7 x 9-34 inches, 216 pages.

Peterson Field Guide Series - A Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America By Kent and Vera McKnight 1987, Houghton Mifflin A compact, portable field guide covering over 1, 000 species, with more than 700 paintings and drawings of mushrooms (over 400 in color); paintings and drawings, rather than photos, in many cases show details better. Big drawback is its use of "common" names that no one actually uses except for folks who have only this one book

Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests By Ken Mudge & Steve Gabriel 2014, Chelsea Green An outstanding new book! Farming the Woods is an essential book for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland, are looking for productive ways to manage it, and are interested in incorporating aspects of agroforestry, permaculture, forest gardening, and sustainable woodland management. 8 x 10 inches, 384 pages, loaded with color photos and diagrams.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary H. Lincoff 1981, Knopf North America's #1 best-selling mushroom field guide! A handy, portable book (vinyl cover) with more than 700 full-color photographs and descriptive text. Unfortunately, according to Lincoff, a number of those are misidentified and others are not very color-accurate (none of the photo problems are such that they could cause confusion between an edible species and a poisonous one), and the color photos are all in one section without scientific names. Nonetheless, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to identify as many muhrooms as possible. About 4 x 7-12 inches, 926 pages.