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A comprehensive and user-friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border.

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.

NOAH SIEGEL's field mycology skills are extensive – he has spent two decades seeking, photographing, identifying, and furthering his knowledge about all aspects of macrofungi. He has hunted for mushrooms throughout the United States and Canada, as well as on multiple expeditions to New Zealand and Australia.
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.

Introduction 7

What Are Mushrooms? 8

Humans and Ecology of Fungi 9

Fungi 10

The Redwood Coast 11

Trees of the Redwood Coast 12

Finding Mushrooms 16

Collecting Mushrooms 16

Identifying Mushrooms 16

Making Spore Prints 17

Tools of the Trade 17

Making Collections 17

Photographing Mushrooms 18

Collecting for the Table 18

Taxonomy and Cladistics 19

How to Read the Species Descriptions 20

A General Format of the Species Descriptions 20

Pictorial Key to the Major Sections 22

THE DESCRIPTIONS:

1 • Chanterelles and Gomphoids 29

2 • Amanita 38

3 • Lepiota and Allies 60

4 • Agaricus and Melanophyllum 79

5 • Dark-Spored Mushrooms 98

6 • Brown-Spored Decomposers 131

7 • Mycorrhizal Brown-Spored Mushrooms 154

8 • Cortinarius 172

9 • Entoloma and Allies 209

10 • Pluteus and Allies 226

11 • Russula and Lactarius 233

12 • Waxy Caps 275

13 • The White-Spored Multitude 302

14 • Pleurotoid Mushrooms 403

15 • Gilled Bolete Relatives 416

16 • Boletes 426

17 • Polypores and Allies 464

18 • Crust Fungi 489

19 • Tooth Fungi 496

20 • Coral and Club Mushrooms 511

21 • Puffballs, Earthballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, and Bird’s Nests 533

22 • Truffles 548

23 • Jelly Fungi 554

24 • Morels, False Morels, and Elfin Saddles 558

25 • Cup Fungi 565

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Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California

Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California

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