(Part 3) Top products from r/mycology

The two you've listed are my personal favorites. I also make use of National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, 100 Edible Mushrooms, North American Mushrooms: A Field guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi (not my favorite, but a useful cross reference at times), and Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America (this one has fantastic photos. While it is never recommended to ID by appearance alone, the cross cuts and underside photos in this book can be very useful). If you live in the southern east coast then I'd recommend Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States if you can find it affordably (as far as I know it is out of print and even used coppies are pretty expensive, but it is a fantastic book for southeastern mushrooms).

As far as websites I am a pretty frequent visitor of MushroomExpert.com. It offers some good keys and there are a lot of mushrooms listed.

I've posted this elsewhere but here ya go...

> Avoid the Audubon guide. The Audubon guide is pretty terribad (bad photos, pithy descriptions, not user-friendly.)

> There are much better nationwide guides out there (like the Falcon Guide), but quite honestly you're better off with a regional guide.

> My recs for regional field guides:

> Alaska

> - Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

> Western US

> - All The Rain Promises and More

• Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
  
  >Midwestern US
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• Mushrooms of the Midwest
  
• Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States
  
• Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest
  
  >Southern US
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• Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide
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  Eastern US
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• Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Cental Appalachians
  
• Mushrooms of Northeast North America
  
• Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America
  
  > As an aside, books like Mushrooms Demystified, Lichens of North America, Mushrooms of Northeastern North America, and Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States are too large and cumbersome to take out in the field, but are all excellent references to have at home for ID after a foray.

I would not recommend the Audubon guide it is very out of date (this can range from outdated taxonomy all the way to toxicology that has changed over the years). It is useful because it lists species other guides lacks but you'll learn to hate it.

Buy a location specific guide. It depends on where you live. If you get really into field hunting buy some specific guides that give you a more in depth understanding and help you not to die. Joining a local mycological society is also an extremely valuable resource in understanding mycology.

Here's a bit of everything

Regional guides

Alaska

Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

Western US

All The Rain Promises and More
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

Mushrooms Demystified This is an old book, while still useful it definitely needs updating.

The New Savory Wild Mushroom Also dated but made for the PNW

Midwestern US

Mushrooms of the Midwest

Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States

Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest

Southern US

Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide

Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States

Common Mushrooms of Florida

A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms It's old so you'll need to learn new names.

Eastern US

Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians

Mushrooms of Northeast North America (This was out of print for awhile but it's they're supposed to be reprinting so the price will be normal again)

Mushrooms of Northeastern North America

Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America(Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America)

Mushrooms of Cape Cod and the National Seashore

More specific (Advanced) guides

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World

North American Boletes

Tricholomas of North America

Milk Mushrooms of North America

Waxcap Mushrooms of North America

Ascomycete of North America

Ascomycete in colour

Fungi of Switzerland: Vol. 1 Ascomycetes A series of 6 books.

Fungi Europaei A collection of 14 books.

PDFs and online Guides

For Pholiota

For Chlorophyllum

American species of Crepidotus

Guide to Australian Fungi If this is useful consider donating to this excellent set of guides.

Websites that aren't in the sidebar

For Amanita

For coprinoids

For Ascos

MycoQuebec: they have a kickass app but it's In French

Messiah college this has a lot of weird species for polypores and other things

For Hypomyces

Cultivation

The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (If your home is a 50,000 sq ft warehouse)

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

Mycology

The fifth kingdom beginner book, I would recommend this. It goes over fungal taxonomy Oomycota, Zygomycota and Eumycota. It also has ecology and fungi as food.

The kingdom fungi coffee table book it has general taxonomy of the kingdom but also very nice pictures.

Introduction to fungi Depends on your definition of beginner, this is bio and orgo heavy. Remember the fungi you see pop out of the ground (ascos and basidios) are only a tiny fraction of the kingdom.

NAMA affiliated clubs

This is a great book http://www.amazon.com/Morels-Michael-Kuo/dp/0472030361

I don't have any suggestions for those parts of the country, but having gone out last Spring looking for morels for the first time myself, I can say that it's really helpful to have someone along that knows the game. They're really hard to see! You really want to get a sense of their habitat. In Oregon, we look for groups of Hemlock saplings and around the drip line of larger trees. Put up a bunch of pictures of morels around your house so their image gets burned into your brain. Have fun and be safe!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/000746648X/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1484232029&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=collins+mushroom&dpPl=1&dpID=516ZtWwQ5cL&ref=plSrch The best one I own and it's great at explaining

Awesome, a fellow Southern(ish)er. This one covers Kentucky and is budget friendly:

Mushrooms of the Southeast (A Timber Press Field Guide) https://www.amazon.com/dp/160469730X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_DZMPBbPTFWDWP

I think that supplemented with Mushrooms Demystified for advanced keying will have you covered.

The kingdom fungi coffee table book it has general taxonomy of the kingdom but also very nice pictures.

The Fifth Kingdom beginner book covering fungal taxonomy Oomycota, Zygomycota and Eumycota. It also has ecology and fungi as food. More advanced than the book above.

Fungal Biology. A much broader but more complex view on fungal ecology than the book above. Fungal Biology provides a less esoteric than the book below, which delves more into the individual biology of the specific fungal taxa.

Introduction to Fungi. 300 Level textbook, lots of plant pathology and orgo, taxa are out of date but its a bio book not a taxonomic one.

Introductory Mycology 4th Ed.

I'm nearly shocked at the news that someone would not like Oyster mushrooms. Perhaps you aren't cooking them right. preheat a dry pan to extremely hot, spray some pan spray on the mushroom and put it gill side down and hold in in hard contact with the pan with a spatula. It's really hard to burn something that is 90% water but you can get it to a deep golden brown, which is the idea here. Oysters taste much better when seared in this way.

Also, if a couple of grow kits get your interest, consider investing in [Paul Stamets' book.] (http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Gourmet-Medicinal-Mushrooms-Stamets-ebook/dp/B004GTLS2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417373049&sr=8-1&keywords=paul+stamets)

Here's the latest book to cover all of mycology. Published in 2016! I'm trying to share when I feel appropriate. I wish mods would put it on the wiki. Messaged some of them about it.

NC rank amatuer here - When I was just getting into it, a couple of mycologists recommended two guides: A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms and the 1991 ed of Mushrooms of North America by Roger Phillips, which I believe has been superseeded by this book. Alas, the local mushroom club disbanded and the experts moved away before I gained confidence in self-identifying and eating more than canterelles, morels, hen-of-the-woods, sulfur shelf and oyster. And since then, our favorite morel grounds has become a series of soccer fields. But, I still find oysters with some regularity on river walks where I know the terrain and the downed trees. That may be way too basic for you, but do check out FG to Southern Mushrooms.

I really like the way this book is presenting information https://www.amazon.com/Smithsonian-Handbooks-Mushrooms-Thomas-Laessoe/dp/0789489864/

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link to newer 2002 edition

Like this? Or is the color and opacity important?

http://www.amazon.com/Treasures-Kingdom-Fungi-Featuring-Photographs/dp/097094490X

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Kuo/e/B001ILI9G2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603582142/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/The-Mushroom-Cultivator-Practical-Mushrooms/dp/0961079800/ref=pd_sim_b_8?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V56Q93CSRKQYV2W1C0B http://www.amazon.com/Mycelium-Running-Mushrooms-Help-World/dp/1580085792/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V56Q93CSRKQYV2W1C0B http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472030361/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472031260/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394519922/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580085792/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i03?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ahh, you got me. My field guide,

Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic,

incorrectly lists A. Caearea [ with synonyms A. hemiapha and *A. umbonata] instead of A. jacksonii*. I checked against PaMushrooms.com to be sure. Corrections have been made in my book!

I hope your wrong because that means someone is currently in my honey hole. I did clean up the bottle with a magic eraser which took a lot of the grim off it. In addition the bottle was full of dirt that had to be soak to get out. So with that and the bottom showing demarcations of LS 68 3 I'm thinking this might be a 1968 bottle.

Trying to digest this.