Mushrooms
of the Redwood Coast: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern
California – Noah Siegel and Christian Schwarz (Ten Feed Press)
While enjoying a few adult libations with friends, I
was cornered into a conversation with a friend’s college professor husband who
proceeded to launch into a lengthy dissertation about of all things his
mushroom hunting blog! Apparently he is among a group of nationally recognized
and renowned fungi experts.
With my knowledge limited to the handful of readily
available ‘shrooms of the cooking variety that are available at the local
grocery store, I was not aware of the large variety of mushrooms that call our
wonderful county home and that there was what I can only describe with tongue
planted firmly in cheek as the bloodsport of mushroom hunting.
Well for those interested in learning more about the
fungi that can be found along the northern most reaches of the California
coastline, then Noah Siegel and Christian Schwarz have served up the most
encyclopedic tome that I can imagine to deliver chapter and verse on that
corner of the world entitled, Mushrooms
of the Redwood Coast: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern
California.
Siegel and Schwarz serve up the minutiae of mushrooms,
cataloging some 700 varieties and offering up stunningly detailed descriptions
and photography. They deliver the geography of where to track down these often
rare breeds of the fungi world. Is this for everybody? Probably not, but for
those who want the get their hunt on this is the perfect book to guide the way.
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