This is the expert guide to identifying picking & using wild mushrooms. It is a detailed guide to picking drying preserving & storing wild mushrooms. It is a photographic A-Z of the most commonly found edible wild mushrooms seen both in-situ & in close-up identification shots. It offers at-a-glance information on habitat season storing & cooking hints for every mushroom. It offers a clear identification guide to poisonous & inedible species for extra security. It features over 300 colour photographs. Mushrooming is a hobby of ever-increasing popularity that everyone even city-dwellers can enjoy. It is crucial obviously that the most expert advice is taken when hunting for mushrooms & this authoritative guide offers clear practical information for accurate identification. This handy volume begins with a short introduction explaining everything a mushroom picker needs to know followed by a fully-illustrated A
- Z guide in which the author describes the identifying features & habitats of the most popular edible mushrooms. Finally a chapter on inedible mushrooms clearly illustrates all the poisonous & potentially deceptive species which the mushroom picker is most likely to come across.