looking for mushroom guide recommendation

[jkeeley1]

Does anyone know a good guide (with detailed pictures) for wild mushrooms? or even one for wild edibles in general? I am looking for a guide that I can take out into the field and use to gather mushrooms/wild edibles. preferably something available at borders, barnes & noble or amazon.
Thanks!

 

[richc]

Look for ones containing Psychocybin.



Rich

 

[jkeeley1]

was looking more for mushrooms to cook w/ rather than to take intergalactic technicolor candy trips with.

 

[Jedhed]

This is the one I have. Pretty much the mushroom bible.

http://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Demystified-Comprehensive-Guide-Fleshy/dp/0898151694

 

[lord1234]

I use my father.

 

[M1911]

Personally, I would not gather mushrooms using only a book. I'd run everything by an experienced mycologist for several years. There are a number of severely poisonous mushrooms that look similar to edible ones.

 

[glostamon]

Personally, I would not gather mushrooms using only a book. I'd run everything by an experienced mycologist for several years. There are a number of severely poisonous mushrooms that look similar to edible ones.

+1
Bold mushroom pickers,are never Old mushroom pickers

 

[Finalygotabeltfed]

Best advice is to get someone who is a mushroom picker, that is still alive and has not experienced organ failure in the past to show you
which ones to pick and what they grow on.
This may be difficult as most mushroom pickers are kind of secretive about their sources of their finds.

Remember, The ultimate penalty for a wrong choice in mushrooms is death.

 

[deadhead133]

Stalking The Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons C. 1962

 

[coastie]

Stalking The Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons C. 1962

Didnt he die from something he ate. I would find a knowledgeable experienced person to show you.

 

[lord1234]

This is my dad after going mushroom picking one day. That is a full size kitchen table. (this is also only half the haul)

 

[glostamon]

This is my dad after going mushroom picking one day. That is a full size kitchen table. (this is also only half the haul)

WOW! thats a serious haul.

Your dad seems like a FUN-GUY!

 

[lord1234]

My father loves telling the following story:

One day him and my mom were picking mushrooms. An American family (we're originally from russia, though now proud US citizens) saw them walking in and out of the woods, and asked what they were doing. They told them that they were picking mushrooms. Sometime later, my father watches the father walking with his family of wife + 2 kids carrying what he calls "the largest, most poisonous mushroom he'd ever seen". The guy was beaming at his "amazing haul". My father had to walk over and tell the guy to put the mushroom down, and get to the nearest bathroom without touching anything, especially not his children.

I use this story as a warning to anyone planning on picking shrooms without a good primer/teacher.

 

[coastie]

What do you do with that many mushrooms? DO you eat them all fresh or preserve them?

 

[lord1234]

What do you do with that many mushrooms? DO you eat them all fresh or preserve them?

they preserve them

 

[Wildweasel]

they preserve them

Ok do they dry them can them what?