Texas mushrooms : a field guide / Susan Metzler, Van Metzler, and Orson K. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metzler, Susan, author.

Metzler, Van, author.

Miller, Orson K., author.

Series:

Corrie Herring Hooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mushrooms--Texas--Identification.

Mushrooms.

Mushrooms--Texas--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [1992]

Summary:

Back in print with a new cover and preface, Texas Mushrooms, which has sold 10,000 copies, is still the only field guide to the state's more than 200 species, complete with color photographs and a selection of recipes for delicious mushroom dishes.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Series Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Mushroom Hunting in Texas

2. How to Use This Book to Identify Your Mushroom

3. Mushroom Toxins

4. Cooking and Eating Wild Mushrooms

Subdivision Basidiomycotina

Class Hymenomycetes

Order Agaricales

Order Aphyllophorales

Orders Tremellales, Auriculariales, and Dacrymycetales: The Jelly Fungi

Class Gasteromycetes

Order Lycoperdales: The Puffballs and Earthstars

Order Nidulariales: The Birds' Nest Fungi

Order Sclerodermatales: The Earthballs

Order Phallales: The Stinkhorns

Other Gasteromycetes

Subdivision Ascomycotina: The Ascos

Class Pyrenomycetes: The Flask Fungi

Class Discomycetes: The Cup, Brain, and Sponge Fungi

Appendix: Spore Data Chart

For Further Study

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292754829

0292754825

OCLC:

893080151