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Wild Mushrooming : A Guide for Foragers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pouliot, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edible mushrooms--Australia--Identification.
- Edible mushrooms.
- Cooking (Mushrooms).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2021.
- Summary:
- Find, identify, collect and prepare 10 edible fungus species using a 'slow mushrooming' approach.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- Chapter 1 The rise of wild mushrooming in Australia
- A fungal awakening
- Slow mushrooming
- Fungus, sporophore, mushroom or toadstool?
- Ecological foraging
- Australian knowledge of edible fungi
- Humans and fungi cross continents
- Chapter 2: What fungi are
- What are fungi made of?
- How fungi feed
- Mutually beneficial relationships
- Chapter 3: Fungi in Australian biodiversity conservation
- An Australian approach
- Foraging in the UK and the USA - learning from elsewhere
- Potential effects of foraging
- Conservation considerations for Australian foragers
- Chapter 4: Major groups of fungi
- Morphogroups
- Basidiomycota
- Ascomycota
- Major morphogroups of macrofungi
- Chapter 5: Features of fungi
- Morphological features - finding one's way around a mushroom
- Colour
- Texture
- Smell and taste
- Spore prints
- Chemical tests
- Chapter 6: Names and identification
- Naming fungi
- DNA
- Citation of names
- Field guides
- Keys
- Chapter 7: Finding fungi
- The desire to forage
- Managing risk and setting expectations
- How to find fungi - what to look for and what to ask
- When to find fungi
- Where to find fungi - fungus habitats and distribution
- Where can you forage? The legalities of collecting fungi
- Collecting fungi
- Chapter 8: Poisonous fungi
- Causes of fungus poisoning
- Fungus toxins, syndromes and symptoms
- Building knowledge about toxic fungi in Australia
- Overview of toxic and potentially toxic mushrooms
- Responding to suspected mushroom poisoning
- How to read a profile
- Amanita phalloides
- Amanita muscaria
- Agaricus xanthodermus
- Chlorophyllum brunneum
- Chlorophyllum molybdites
- Coprinopsis atramentaria
- Omphalotus nidiformis
- Paxillus involutus group.
- Chapter 9: Edible fungi and their lookalikes
- Profile selection
- Lookalikes
- Typical environments where profiled fungi are found
- Lactarius deliciosus
- Coprinus comatus
- Lepista nuda
- Macrolepiota clelandii
- Marasmius oreades
- Agaricus
- Suillus
- Hydnum crocidens group
- Tremella fuciformis
- Lycoperdon pratense
- Emerging knowledge
- Cultivated fungi
- Chapter 10: Fungi in the kitchen and on the table
- Storage and preparation
- Preserving mushrooms - drying, freezing and pickling
- Cooking mushrooms - frying, roasting and grilling
- Nutritional value
- Recipe selection
- Recipes
- Glossary
- Further reading and resources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781486311750
- 148631175X
- 9781486311743
- 1486311741
- OCLC:
- 1243552187
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