The Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms
by Gary Lincoff · first published 1981
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Over 750 color photographs show mushrooms as they appear in their natural habitats and are arranged by species, shape and color.
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…after) have a more experienced forager/expert validate your IDs. A good resource is also the mushroom identification Reddit. Finally, get a book! I have maybe a dozen, but by far my most used is the The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary Lincoff. Excellent for identifying mushrooms you're likely to run into, although the scientific names aren't super accurate.
on “Safest mushrooms to forage and eat” ↗Hot takes aside, if you're looking for great foraging books, I'd suggest anything by David Arora, such as "All That the Rain Promises and More" and "Mushrooms Demystified". The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms is, of course, pretty good too. Outside of identification, "Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares" and "Radical Mycology" are good reads too.
on “Mushroom pickers urged: Avoid Amazon foraging books, appear to be written by AI” ↗Wonderful, thank you. I have here in front of me "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms" I think Ill read up a bit in there to see what I can find out. (heh saw you in another thread, mr 4/4 (that Kuni Kath architecture vid was interesting) - Paul Stamets is a national treasure - I just…
on “Electronic soil boosts crop growth” ↗…Lepiota Family (pp. 500-525). Each species is identified as definitely edible, definitely poisonous, or of unknown edibility and not recommended. This latter class was combined with the poisonous one. The [Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms] clearly states that there is no simple rule for determining the edibility of a mushroom; no rule like ``leaflets three, let it be'' for Poisonous Oak and Ivy. So that's just the mushrooms in two families,…
on “I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)” ↗Im literally sitting here with "THE AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS" - And I am still terrified and amazed with them.
on “The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence” ↗To be fair, even the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms tells you that if you follow it without knowing what you're doing your going to get poisoned. Not necessarily an AI issue.
on “Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book” ↗