The book of fungi peter roberts

He is also on the editorial boards of field mycology, mycological progress, czech. The book of fungi takes 600 of the most remarkable fleshy fungi from around the world and reproduces each at its actual size, in full colour, and accompanied by a scientific explanation of its. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the book of fungi. The c book of today there are few, if any, places on earth. A lifesize guide to six hundred species from around the world 01 by roberts, peter, evans, shelley isbn. The book of fungi a lifesize guide to six hundred species from around the world book. Shelley evans profiles six hundred species of fungi, with information on distribution, habitat, association, abundance, growth form, spore color, and edibility. With information on the characteristics, locations, distinguishing features, and occasionally bizarre habits of these fungi, youll find in this book the common and the conspicuous, the unfamiliar and the oddincluding a fungal predator, for instance, that hunts its prey with lassos, and several that set traps, including one that entices sows. Book of fungi makes us want to go mushroomhunting popular.

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