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Summary: Field Guide to Mushrooms of Britain
Review: An excellent photo-guide that would have been far more useful to me six months earlier. Amongst the clear concise information in this volume is the fact that the Stump Puffball is inedible unlike the other true puffballs. The field guides I had last October all said that all the Lycoperdon were edible if eaten young, firm and white. All stating this to be true of the Pear-Shaped or Stump Puffball, Lycoperdon pyriforme. As some readers may be eating their lunch I will not describe the symptoms that I suffered. The only reason I don't give this book five stars is because it isn't bigger. It could do with covering a few more species.
Rating:
Summary: Field Guide to Mushrooms of Britain
Review: An excellent photo-guide that would have been far more useful to me six months earlier. Amongst the clear concise information in this volume is the fact that the Stump Puffball is inedible unlike the other true puffballs. The field guides I had last October all said that all the Lycoperdon were edible if eaten young, firm and white. All stating this to be true of the Pear-Shaped or Stump Puffball, Lycoperdon pyriforme. As some readers may be eating their lunch I will not describe the symptoms that I suffered. The only reason I don't give this book five stars is because it isn't bigger. It could do with covering a few more species.
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