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Mushrooms of the Northwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides)
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Product Description Get This Great Visual Guide to Mushrooms in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington! Hundreds of full-color photographs with easy-to-understand text make this a perfect visual guide. Learn about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northwest states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the Top Edibles and Top Toxics sections, you'll begin to learn which are the edible wild mushrooms. The information in the book, written by Teresa Marrone and Drew Parker, is accessible to beginners but useful for even experienced mushroom seekers. About the Author Teresa Marrone is the lead author of three regional field identification guides for wild mushrooms (Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest, Mushrooms of the Northeast, and Mushrooms of the Northwest). She is also sole author of more than a dozen outdoors-themed books, including the Wild Berries & Fruits Identification Guides series (currently available for four regions of the U.S.). She splits her time between her home in Minneapolis and her cabin in northern Minnesota, abutting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. With a background in the visual arts, Drew Parker has always had a strong attraction to the natural sciences, as well. He found his focus in fungi after arriving in the Northwest in 1973 and innocently wandering into the mountains with a new mushroom book in hand. He is a longtime member of the North American Mycological Association and the Pacific Northwest Key Council, a group of amateur and professional mycologists that was formed to further the study of Northwest fungi. Over the years, he has served as foray mycologist for the Spokane Mushroom Club and has worked for several years conducting surveys of macrofungi for the U.S. Forest Service. As a photographer, Drew has supplied images for numerous mycological papers and books, as well as for MatchMaker, a digital mushroom identification program, of which he is a coauthor. He currently resides with his wife, Katie, at their home in the wild woods near Metaline Falls, Washington. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Cap & Stem with Pores KUROTAKE Boletopsis leucomelaena, B. grisea Habitat: The Boletopsis discussed here are mycorrhizal, and fruit from the ground near trees. They may be found singly, scattered or in small groups in mixed woods. B. leucomelaena typically associates with spruce; B. grisea is more likely to be found near pine species. Both are common in our area. Description: The name Kurotake is used to refer to several closely related Boletopsis species that are difficult to separate visually; they are sometimes referred to as the Boletopsis leucomelaena group, which also includes B. grisea and perhaps others that are as yet unnamed. These cap-and-stem mushrooms have pores, much like Boletes, but the flesh and pore surface are tough―somewhat like polypores (shelf mushrooms with pores; see pgs. 198–219). B. leucomelaena is sometimes described as being taller and thinner than B. grisea, with caps that are consistently darker. In general, caps of Kurotake are dingy white or gray when young, developing dark streaks or blotches over time; caps of mature specimens may be dark gray or blackish overall (particularly in B. leucomelaena) and are up to 8 inches wide. Edges are often wavy or irregular. The pore surface is bright white, darkening slightly with age; it extends down slightly onto the top of the stem. The pores are finely textured and angular to rounded in shape. Stems are 1.5 to 4 inches tall and one-third to one-half as thick; they are dull white to pale gray, developing darker streaks with age. The stems may be attached to the caps somewhat off-center; stem bases are tapered. There is no ring. Spore Print: White to pale brown. Season: Summer through fall. Other N
