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From one of the region’s foremost mushroom hunters, Walter E. Sturgeon, comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms found in the Appalachian mountains. This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond.
List of contents
Cautionary Note¿vii
Preface¿ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Mushroom Identification xv
How to Use This Book¿
—Gilled Mushrooms xvii
—Non-Gilled Fungi xix
Amanita 1
Russula 21
Milk Mushrooms 35
—Lactarius and Lactifluus
Medium to Large White-Spored Mushrooms with
a Waxy Texture¿63
—Hygrophorus
Small White-Spored Mushrooms with a Waxy Texture¿71
—Hygrocybe, Gliophorus, and Humidicutis
Medium to Large White-Spored Terrestrial Mushrooms 87
—Tricholoma and Melanoleuca
Other White-Spored Mushrooms 101
Colored-Spored Mushrooms 173
Boletes 245
Polypores 303
Chanterelles and Allies 355
Club-Like and Coral-Like Fungi 367
Spine Fungi 389
Puffballs and Related Fungi 401
Mushrooms with Cup-Shaped or Flat Fruiting Bodies 419
Jelly and Rubbery Fungi 435
Morels and False Morels 445
Glossary 453
Mushroom Organizations 455
References 457
Index of scientific names 459
Index of common names and general index 467
About the author
Walt Sturgeon is a field mycologist with over forty years of experience studying and identifying mushrooms. His photos of mushroom and fungi, some award-winning, can be seen in numerous mushroom field guide publications, three of which he coauthored. One of these,
Mushrooms of the Northeast, was awarded the best field guide of 2016 by the National Outdoor Writers Association.
Summary
From one of the region’s foremost mushroom hunters, Walter E. Sturgeon, comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms found in the Appalachian mountains. This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond.
