Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic

August 1, 2017 By John E. Riutta in Newly Noted Books Tags: atlantic, book, foraging, fungus, mushroom, mycology, News, penn, pennsylvania, press, russell, university

Anyone interested in becoming involved with wild mushrooms had better have themselves a good field guide. For those in the Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic region, such a guide has long been Bill Russell‘s 2006 book Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic, part of the Keystone Books series from Penn State University Press.

However this well-established and much respected guidebook is about to be replaced in its pride-of-place for fungus foraging… by his just published Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic (Revised and Expanded Edition).

Containing full illustrated descriptions of more than one hundred species of the area’s fungi, including twenty-five varieties not found in the previous guide, Russell’s new guidebook should be a welcome addition to the reference material of both novice as well as experienced mushroom enthusiasts.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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