Resources

SOME BOOKS AND WEBSITES HELPFUL IN MUSHROOM IDENTIFICATION 

WEBSITES 

MushroomExpert.com (Michael Kuo):  https://www.mushroomexpert.com/ 

Champignons du Québec:  https://www.mycoquebec.org/ 

SOME USEFUL HANDBOOKS: 

Arora, David. Mushrooms Demystified. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1986. 

Baroni, Timothy J. Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. Timber Press Field Guide. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2017. 

Bessette, Alan and Arleen R. Bessette.  Boletes of Eastern North America. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2016.

Bessette, Alan; Arleen R. Bessette, and Dianna Smith.  Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2021.

Bessette, Alan; David B. Harris, Arleen R. Bessette.  Milk Mushrooms of North America.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 2009.

Bessette, Alan E., Arleen R. Bessette, and David W. Fischer. Mushrooms of Northeastern North America. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Beug, Michael; Alan Bessette; Arlene R. Bessette, Ascomycete Fungi of North America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014)  

Brodo, Irwin M., Lichens of North America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)

Kuo, Michael. Morels.  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Largent, David. How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus I: Macroscopic Features. Eureka, CA: Mad River Press, 1986. 

Lincoff, Gary H. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. Visual key by Carol Nehring. The Audubon Society Field Guide Series. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1981. 

Marrone, Teresa, and Walt Sturgeon. Mushrooms of the Northeast. Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications, 2016. 

Petersen, Jens H. The Kingdom of Fungi. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. 

Roody, William C. Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2003. 

INFORMATION ON STAINS AND CHEMICALS: 

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/microscope.html 

http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology/microscopy/reagents/ 

http://fungus.org.uk/nwfg/chemdec99.htm 

http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/~microscopy.php 

INTERPRETATIONS OF FUNGAL LIFE:

Sheldrake, Merlin,  Entangled Life: How Fungi make our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape our Future (New York: Random House, 2021)

Simard, Suzanne, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (New York: Knopf, 2021)

Stamets, Paul, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005).

ORGANIZATIONS

North American Mycological Association (NAMA)  https://namyco.org/

North Eastern Mycological Federation (NEMF)  https://nemf.org

iNaturalist   https://www.inaturalist.org/

Mushroom Observer  https://mushroomobserver.org/


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