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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