"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from "gentlegreen" contains these words:

Roger Phillips is a highly acclaimed author and his entire book appears
to
be online :-)

http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/

While it is a very good book, mushrooms are so variable in shape and
colour that you might pass a pic in the book without seeing the
similarity with the specimen you are trying to identify.

There is no substitute for your own experience and that of others - one
could often write huge tomes on a single species, and illustrate it with
dozens of varying forms and coloration depending on the clone, the
weather, the timeof year, the conditions where found, the conditions
when found, the age of the specimen and what it's been attacked or eaten
by.

I fully concur.

I'm even nervous about buying dried mushrooms in the supermarket so Paul
Stamets is my preferred source - find a mushroom you like and cultivate it.
My brother has bought a small paddock with lots of poplar that needs felling
so I will doubtless be growing mushrooms on it.

Apart from the risk of destroying your liver, there are usually things
living in wild fungi .....

That said I will hopefully be going on a foray soon - maybe after a few
years I may seek out one or two species I can be confident about.


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