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Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California Paperback – August 9, 2016
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Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast will help beginning and experienced mushroom hunters alike to find and identify mushrooms, from common to rare, delicious to deadly, and interesting to beautiful. This user-friendly reference covers coastal California from Monterey County to the Oregon border with full treatments of more than 750 species, and references to hundreds more. With tips on mushroom collecting, descriptions of specific habitats and biozones, updated taxonomy, and outstanding photography, this guide is far and away the most modern and comprehensive treatment of mushrooms in the region. Each species profile pairs a photograph with an in-depth description, as well as notes on ecology, edibility, toxicity, and look-alike species. Written by mushroom identification experts and supported by extensive field work, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast is an indispensable guide for anyone curious about fungi.
- Print length608 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTen Speed Press
- Publication dateAugust 9, 2016
- Dimensions7.56 x 1.45 x 9.45 inches
- ISBN-101607748177
- ISBN-13978-1607748175
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—GARY LINCOFF, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast is at a whole new level for regional mushroom guides. It is certainly a must-own for anyone that’s serious about mushroom identification in California.
—TOM BRUNS, professor of plant and micrbial biology at the University of California, Berkeley
This is a wonderful and comprehensive guide to the intriguing mushrooms of coastal northern California. Well-researched, beautifully illustrated, and written with insight and humor!
—ELSE C. VELLINGA, editor of Flora Agaricina Neerlandica
This book sets a new standard for comprehensive regional mushroom identification guides. The photographs alone are worth the price of admission.
—DAVID ARORA, author of Mushrooms Demystified
Accomplished field mycologists/photographers Siegel and Schwarz have made the colorful and fascinating mushrooms of the redwood coast accessible through this indispensable new book.
—DR. STEVEN TRUDELL, author of Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
About the Author
He is one of the premier mushroom photographers in the nation, having won numerous awards from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) photography contest. His technique and attention to detail are unrivaled, arising from a philosophy of maximizing utility for identification purposes while maintaining a high degree of aesthetic appeal.
His photographs have appeared on the covers and have been featured in articles of multiple issues of FUNGI Magazine and Mushroom the Journal, the primary mushroom enthusiast magazines in the United States, numerous mushroom books, as well as NAMA and other club publications.
He is past president of the Monadnock Mushroomers Unlimited, (MMU) a mushroom club based out of Keene, NH, and is an active member of the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society and the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz.
Noah travels and lectures extensively across America, following the mushrooms.
CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ is a naturalist interested in the diversity of living organisms in general, but the seemingly endless forms (whether grotesque, bizarre, or sublime) of fungi in particular stoke his curiosity. He spends most of his time teaching about natural history, collecting and photographing mushrooms, assembling an exhaustive mycoflora for Santa Cruz County (www.scmycoflora.org), and exploring wilderness around the world. He is particularly interested in the role of citizen scientists in the future of ecological and taxonomic research.
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The rugged edge of the continent upon which Coast Redwoods dwell is fantastically beautiful land. The warm, dry summers and rainy winters that bathe this area’s varied terrain create a great diversity of habitats, which are home to mushrooms and other fungi: a tremendously diverse but often overlooked community of organisms.
Mushroom identification as a hobby has an obvious end goal: to be able to attach names to organisms and communicate about them reliably and effectively. But pursuing this goal necessarily involves continually honing and developing increased awareness of other fungi, which leads to outcomes more subtle and more profound. You will learn a few mushrooms your first year, and the next year you will learn a few more; then you will have experiences that challenge you to question your own knowledge, as well as some that strengthen it. You will eventually be surprised at how much you know (and how much more you are left wondering about!). More importantly, with every step you take down this road, your world will expand. You will begin to notice slime molds, mosses, lichens, tiny insects, and the various other minute habitats that surround fungi, and you will soon wonder about all of these as well.
Paired with your persistence, curiosity, and time spent in the woods, this guide will help you become familiar with the names and faces of fungi on the Redwood Coast, and give you a glimpse of what we know about their role in California’s ecosystems. We hope that this book will encourage beginners to dive in to the world of California’s fungi, as well as assist and encourage more experienced identifiers as they push our collective knowledge forward.
Coast Redwoods are a magnificent and irreplaceable part of our heritage, and we should strive to protect the ecosystems that support them. We hope that this book will serve as a reminder that this coast is also home to a great diversity of fungi. They are rarely given attention in conservation efforts (perhaps due to their intermittent visibility), but fungi are always there. Whether busy on roots, in soil, on moss, or in the heartwood of trees, they are essential to the dynamics of forests.
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- Publisher : Ten Speed Press (August 9, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1607748177
- ISBN-13 : 978-1607748175
- Item Weight : 3.71 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.56 x 1.45 x 9.45 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #92,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #55 in Mushrooms in Biological Sciences
- #140 in Outdoors & Nature Reference
- #365 in Biology (Books)
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Christian Schwarz is a naturalist currently living in California. He studied Ecology and Evolution at UC Santa Cruz, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, collecting, and researching macrofungi. He is coauthor of "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast”. Fungi satisfy his curiosity with their seemingly endless forms – from the grotesque to the bizarre to the sublimely beautiful. Besides dabbling in mushroom taxonomy, he loves fish, plants, nudibranchs, moths, and dragonflies. He is passionate about biodiversity-centered community science, especially iNaturalist. He is a Research Associate at the Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz as well as the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden.
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The descriptions of each species are very thorough and, along with the photo, will help you identify anything you find in the woods. Each species description includes: cap, gills, stipe, flesh, odor, fruit body, tubes, pores, taste (when appropriate), spore deposit, partial veil, microscopy, ecology, KOH, edibility, misapplied name (if any). Some species have additional sections in the description, since they may have different features not seen in other mushroom types. The comments section in each species account gives further details that are important or of interest. It’s a very useful text and the photos will make identification of your finds easier.
The first section of the book is a quick guide to help you pick out mushrooms by groups. From there, you refer to the appropriate section in the text to further narrow down your identification. The illustrations in the quick guide are also photos, and I found this helpful since drawings are often difficult to interpret.
Since I live on the Far North Coast and love learning about mushrooms, this book will be a useful addition to my field guide collection. I hope that the publishers will offer a digital edition for the Kindle as well as the print version. I recommend it for anyone interested in nature, the outdoors, or mycology. Mushroom enthusiasts will love this book and it will get a lot of use on field trips!
I have had this on pre-order for months and just got my copy. This the most up to date listing of west coast mushrooms, and includes current species names. The photography is excellent-- clear, crisp and color accurate photos with succinct information and descriptions. I can't wait until it rains to get out and use it!
I give this book 4 stars not for it's content, but for the poor design decisions made by the publisher if this were to be used in the field: cover has a soft-touch rubbery coating that is already scuffed and is not very durable. Gloss would have been much better. And, unfortunately, the body text is way too light to be legible for us folks with older eyes, especially on a fall day in the woods-- they should have used a "medium" weight of the font vs a "book" weight.
But still, I would not hesitate to buy this book!!!
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