by Greg Marley
APPENDIX OF RECOMMENDED AND
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
Helpful Books for Mushroom Identification
Field Guides for the Beginning Mushroomer
Barron, George. 1999. Mushrooms of Northeast North America; Midwest to New England. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing.
Kuo, M. 2007. 100 Edible Mushrooms. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Spahr, David. 2009. Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, Berkeley.
More Comprehensive Field Guides
Arora, David. 1986. Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press.
Bessette, Allan E., William C. Roody, and Arlene R. Bessette. 2000. North American Boletes. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.
Lincoff, Gary. 1981. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. New York: Alfred Knopf.
Phillips, Roger. 2005. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books.
Trappe, Matt, Frank Evans, and James Trappe. 2007. Field Guide to North American Truffles. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press.
Regional Field Guides
Bessette, Alan E., Arleen R. Bessette, and David W. Fischer. 1997. Mushrooms of Northeastern North America. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. Covering 600 species with keys leading to photographs of the more common mushrooms.
Evenson, Vera Stucky. 1997. Mushrooms of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountains. Denver, Colo.: Denver Botanic Gardens.
Horn, Bruce, Richard Kay, and Dean Abel. 1993. A Guide to Kansas Mushrooms. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. An older guide, but one that addresses midwestern mushrooms with good photos as well as many pages of additional information about mushrooms and mushrooming in the prairie states.
Roody, William C. 2003. Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Covers about 400 species in the Appalachian Mountains region. Well written and easy to use.
Russell, Bill. 2006. Field Guide to the Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic. University Park: Keystone Books, Penn State University Press.
Trudell, Steve, and Joe Ammirati. 2009. Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press.
Great Books about Mushrooms, Mycology, and Related Stuff
Boa, Eric. 2004. Wild Edible Fungi, A Global Overview of Their Use and Importance to People. Non-Wood Forest Products Report #17. Online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/Y5489E/y5489e00.htm
Czarnecki, Jack. 1998. Joe’s Book of Mushroom Cookery. New York: Macmillan.
Kuo, M. 2005. Morels. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Masser, Chris, A. W. Claridge, and J. M. Trappe. 2008. Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Persson, Ollie. 1997. The Chanterelle Book. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press
Pieribone, V., and D. Gruber. 2005. Aglow in the Dark. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. As the title suggests, this book is dedicated to bioluminescence in all its forms, not just fungi.
Stamets, Paul. 1996. Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press.
Stamets, Paul. 2005. Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Save the World. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press.
Wasson, R. G. 1968. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Not in print, but available through some libraries.
Medicinal Mushroom Resources
Hobbs, Christopher. 1995. Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing and Culture. Botanica Press (through various distributors). Great store of information coming from the focus of an herbalist.
Marley, Greg A. 2009. Mushrooms for Health: Medicinal Secrets of Northeast Fungi. Camden, Me.: Down East Books. A field guide and comprehensive look at the most researched and promising of the medicinal mushrooms, the research supporting use, and preparation tips.
Mushroom Poisoning Books and Resources
Benjamin, D. R. 1995. Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas—A Handbook for Naturalists, Mycologists, and Physicians. New York: W.H. Freeman.
Hallen, H., and G. Adams. 2002. Don’t Pick Poison When Gathering Mushrooms for Food in Michigan. Mich. State University Extension Service Bulletin E-2777. Available online at: https://www.msu.edu/user/hallenhe/E-2777.pdf. This is a very well-written and informative bulletin of the common and problematic mushrooms. At forty-three bi-fold pages, it is quite comprehensive without being overwhelming.
Internet Resources
www.mushroomexpert.com A well-organized and developed site for mushroom identification and general information with good links to other resources. Has a great section devoted to morels. Includes keys to many mushroom genera and related groups.
www.mykoweb.com An award-winning California site filled with a wide range of mushroom-related resources, identification supports, articles, and good links. Broadly comprehensive and a little overwhelming initially. Also home to the online Fungi of California.
www.rogersmushrooms.com Rogers Mushrooms is the work of mushrooming author Roger Phillips. This site contains the information published in the above book by the author. It also contains a good section on mushroom toxins and a better visual key to help identify mushrooms to genus.
http://hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu/projects/FFiles / The Firefly Files by Marc Branham, 1998. A great source of information for kids and adults about the world of fireflies.
www.tomvolkfungi.net Tom Volk’s Fungi. Tom is a professor of mycology at the University of Wisconsin and has made an incredible impact on mycologists of all levels of interest and accomplishments over the past fifteen years. His Web site is a treasure trove of information, mostly easily laid out, fun, and informative. Since 1997 he has added monthly mushrooms to a growing list sure to form the basis of an undergraduate degree in mycology.
Journals and Magazines for the Amateur Mushroomer
Fungi Magazine. The newer kid on the block and a very welcome addition, this journal is presented in a friendly, colorful style, and is packed with information helpful for amateur and quasi-professional alike. Mail: Fungi Magazine, P.O. Box 8,1925 Hwy. 175, Richfield, Wisconsin 53076-0008. Phone 262-227-1243, email [email protected], or online at http://www.fungimag.com/ $38.00 for 5 issues.
Mushroom: The Journal of Wild Mushrooming. For twenty years this has been the bedrock for amateur mushroomers and a source of great information, inspiration, and a connection to other American mushroomers. Mail: Leon Shernoff, 1511 E. 54th St. Chicago, IL 60615, or email: [email protected] $25.00 for four issues.
http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/index.html
Resources for Learning about Mushroom Cultivation
Web Sites for Information, Spawn, and Equipment
www.fieldforest.net Field and Forest Products has been in the business of mushroom cultivation for twenty-five years and has all the ups and downs to prove it. A great source of cold-weather growing strains.
www.fungi.com A leader in the field of mushroom cultivation and mushrooming eco-philosophy, Paul Stamets offers a very full range of products and support for mushroom growing.
www.themushroompatch.com The Mushroom Patch is a Canadian company with a wide range of information and products for the home grower. The company specializes in low-cost and low-tech growing.
Books on Mushroom Cultivation
The Mushroom Cultivator by Paul Stamets and J. S. Chilton. 1983. Agarikon Press. One of the first comprehensive books on mushroom cultivation and a great primer that addresses basic techniques and laboratory skills. A good treatment of the specific growing parameters for a number of common edible and a few hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets. 1993. Ten Speed Press. This book adds to the knowledge base built in The Mushroom Cultivator and includes the background informatio
n and growing needs for some medicinal species in addition to edibles and magic mushrooms. A rich source for cultural and historical information as well.
Mushrooms in the Garden by Hellmut Steineck. 1981. Mad River Press. A translation from the original German text, Steineck wrote this guide following many years of practicing his passion for integrating mushrooms into his home landscape. More of a guide to the possibilities than a stepwise recipe for cultivation, it will open your eyes to a new world.
Regional Mycological Organizations to Join
North American Mycological Association
(NAMA)
Bruce Eberle, Executive Secretary, North
American Mycological Association 6586
Guilford Road, Clarksville, MD
21029-1520
Phone: 301-854-3142
Email: [email protected]
Northeast—The Mycological Association of
Washington (DC)
7400 Clifton Road, Clifton, VA 20124-2106
Web:mawdc.org
Email: [email protected]
Northeast Mycological Federation
Web: www.nemf.org
Email: [email protected]
Gulf States Mycological Society- FL, LA,
MS, TX
262 CR 3062, Newton, TX 75966-7003
Web: www.gsmyco.org
Email: [email protected]
Southwest-Four Corners Mushroom Club-
AZ, UT, CO, NM
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.mycowest.org/4cmc
For a state-by-state listing of clubs affiliated with the North American Mycological Association, go to: http://www.namyco.org/clubs/index.html
North American Truffling Society (NATS)
P.O. Box 296
Corvallis, OR 97339
Phone: 503-451-5987 or 503-752-2243
Web: www.natruffling.org
Canada
Alberta Mycological Society
P.O. Box 1921 10405 Jasper Avenue,
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3S2
Web: www.wildmushrooms.ws
South Vancouver Island Mycological Society
2552 Beaufort Road, Sidney, BC V8L 2J9
Web: www.svims.ca
Email: [email protected]
Southern Interior Mycological Society
16152 Schaad Road, Lake Country, BC V4V
1C2
Web: www.mycowest.org/sims.htm
Email: [email protected]
Vancouver Mycological Society
101-1001 W Broadway, Box 181, Vancouver,
BC V6H 4E4
Web: www.vanmyco.com
Email: [email protected]
Mycological Society of Toronto
2106-812 Birnhamthorpe Road,Toronto, ON
M9C 4W1
Web: www.myctor.org
Email: [email protected]
Le Cercle des Mycologues de Montreal
4101 Rue Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, QC
H1X 2B2
Web: www.mycomontreal.qc.ca/
Email: [email protected]
Mexico
Myco Aficionados of Mexico
Apdo.73, Tlaxcala, Tlax 9000 Mexico
Web: www.mexmush.com/
Email: [email protected]
1. The shape and color of morels can vary depending on where they grow.
2. Lilac and apple blossoms tell you when the yellow morels are fruiting.
3. A pair of young giant puffballs at the perfect stage for eating
4. Shaggy manes are best eaten before they begin to mature and blacken.
5. A young sulphur shelf cluster at the perfect stage for eating
6. A mature sulphur shelf cluster on an oak tree
7. A cluster of chanterelles with their blunted forking gills
8. Compare the unbranched, knife-edged gills of the jack o’lantern with the chanterelle.
9. A stately mature Boletus edulis with a characteristic hamburger bun cap and net-veined stalk
10. These young porcinis are ready for cooking.
11. Meadow mushroom gills change from pink to dark brown as they age—an important idenfication feature.
12. The pure white destroying angel is common and deadly.
13. False morels show great variation in the shape of their caps.
14. Don’t be fooled! The squirrel nibble on this fly agaric doesn’t mean it’s edibile.
15. A cluster of prime young honey mushrooms
16. A fairy ring of clitocybes deep in the woods
ENDNOTES
Introduction
1 . Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Save the World (Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2005).
2 . R. Gordon Wasson, Soma: The Divine Mushroom of Immortality (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968).
3 . Ibid.
4 . Ibid.
5 . William Delisle Hay, An Elementary Textbook of British Fungi (London: S. Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1887).
Chapter 1
1 . Alexander Viazmensky, “Picking Mushrooms in Russia,” Mushroom: The Journal of Wild Mushrooming, Winter 1990–91, pp. 5–7.
2 . Ibid.
3 . Jane from Ohio, “Slovak Christmas Eve Mushroom Soup, Recipezaar, November 19, 2006, at http://www.recipezaar.com/196554, accessed April 2, 2008.
4 . Valentina Pavlovna and R. Gordon Wasson, Mushrooms, Russia and History (New York: Pantheon Books, 1957).
5 . Ernest Small, Baba Yaga (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
6 . Larissa Vilenskaya, “From Slavic Mysteries to Contempory PSI Research and Back, Part 3,” at http://www.resonateview.org/places/writings/larissa/myth.htm, accessed April 1, 2008.
7 . Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (New York: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1966.
8 . Sergei T. Aksakov, Remarks and Observations of a Mushroom Hunter, 1856.
9 . Steve Rosenberg, “Russian Mushroom Pickers Threaten Aircraft,” BBC News, September 25, 2000, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europes/941634.stm, accessed July 4, 2009.
10 . Craig Stephen Cravens, Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (London: Greenwood Press, 2006).
11 . Snejana Tempest, Mushroomlore, Mushrooms in Russian Culture. Web site accessed on November 2, 2008 at https://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/mushroomlore
12 . Milka Parkkonen, “Death Cap Mushroom Claims Hundreds of Victims in Southern Russia,” Helsingin Sanomat, July 31, 2000.
13 . Ibid.
14 . “Wild Mushrooms Kill 10 and Poison Hundreds in Russia,” PRAVDA, July 18, 2005, at http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/disasters/8585-mushrooms-0, accessed March 28, 2008.
15 . V. N. Padalka, I. P. Shlapak, S. M. Nedashkovsky, O. V. Kurashov, A. V. Alexeenko, A. G. Bogomol, and Y. O. Polenstov, “Can Mushroom Poisoning Be Considered as a Disaster?” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 15, no. 3 (2000), s76.
Chapter 2
1 . Katherine Mansfield, “Love and Mushrooms,” 1917 journal entry, More Extracts from a Journal, ed. J. Middleton Murry, in The Adelphi (1923), p. 1068.
2 . William D. Hay, An Elementary Textbook on British Fungi (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1887).
3 . Louis C. C. Krieger, The Mushroom Handbook (New York: Dover, 1967).
4 . Antoin Kiely, advertisement for walk dated October 16, 2005, The Ballyhoura Country News, www.ballyhouracountry.com/view.asp?ID-153, accessed October 8, 2008.
5 . Michael W. Beug, Marilyn Shaw, Kenneth W. Cochran, “Thirty Plus Years of Mushroom Poisoning: Summary of Approximately 2,000 Reports in the NAMA Case Registry,” McIlvainea 16, no. 2 (2006), pp. 47–68.
6 . C. L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2003).
7 . Francis De Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, 1609.
8 . Eric Boa, “Wild Edible Fungi, A Global Overview of Their Use and Importance to People,” FAO Non-Wood Forest Products Report #14, from http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5489e/y5489e0
0.htm #TopOfPage, accessed March 2, 2004.
Part II Introduction
1 . Eric Boa, “Wild Edible Fungi, A Global Overview of Their Use and Importance to People,” FAO Non-Wood Forest Products Report #14, from http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5489e/y5489e00.htm #TopOfPage, accessed March 2, 2004.
Chapter 3
1 . Clyde M. Christensen, Common Edible Mushrooms (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1943).
2 . Gary Alan Fine, Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
3 . Michael Kuo, Morels (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
4 . Michael Kuo, mushroomexpert.com Web site: http://www.mushroomexpert.com.html, accessed 2002?
5 . D. R. Benjamin, Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas—A Handbook for Naturalists, Mycologists, and Physicians (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1995).
6 . E. Shavit, “Arsenic in Morels Collected in New Jersey Apple Orchards Blamed for Arsenic Poisoning,” Fungi 1, no. 4 (2008), pp. 2–10.
