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Astounding Mushrooms invites readers into the extraordinary fungi universe..
Mushroom hunting tours have become popular, and mycolophiles are sharing their enthusiasm and identification tips online.
Chefs everywhere are foraging wild foods, including mushrooms.
Wild Mushrooms are enjoyed by an increasing number of locavores, vegans and wild food enthusiasts.
Some wear a hat, some a skirt, and some can even move.
They may be speckled, stinky, slimy, hairy or fuzzy.
Nuanced colors and blushes include yellows, reds, blues and greens.
They can be dry or wet, edible or deadly.
Textures are smooth, shiny or pimpled.
Shapes include buttons, nests, fans, feet, clubs, hooves, trumpets, mesh, tentacles, stars, tubes and spines.
As Astounding Mushrooms reveals, Mushrooms are astonishingly diverse.
Concise captions identify the Mushrooms and provide further description of their biology.
Chapter text sheds light on this unique living species, neither animal nor plant.
The close-up images reveal every size of growth, every shade of color, every shadow of silhouette and every detail of texture.
Astounding Mushrooms features gorgeous full-color photographs of more than 200 mushroom species in their wild habitats. -- Ontario Nature Blog A heartfelt appreciation of the beauty and diversity of fungi.
You won\'t wander the same way after reading.
Astounding Mushrooms inspires us to explore with new vision.
There is much in nature that goes unnoticed on a leisurely afternoon trek of the woods.
With over one million species of Mushrooms said to exist worldwide, this book shows us some of the world\'s most diverse.... we\'re given a glimpse into the wild world of Mushrooms that exists like another realm beneath our feet.
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