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Mushroom the Journal is providing this recent issue as a pdf for free download for those of you who can’t get out to the woods. This issue covers North American morel species, an expedition to Venezuela, using fungi to color wood, and a host of spectacular images.

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Eastern A. muscaria group. Photo by Pam Kaminski.

Mushroom Identification

Starting Out

Collecting and learning about mushrooms
The First Time We Saw Mushrooms

The Identification Course

1. The Species Concept
2. Universal Veils
3. Partial Veils
4. Spore color

Mushroom Profiles

The genus Amanita
Echinodontium ballouii: a real American ivory-billed woodpecker
Spongiforma squarepantsii

Half-free morels. Photo by John Denk.

Mushrooms and People

Biographies and Interviews

Lorelei Norvell
Cardy Raper
W. H. Ballou

Eating Mushrooms

Edibility and poisoning
Cooking Wild Mushrooms
Preserving Wild Mushrooms
more species and recipes
Amanita regalis, an obscure but severely poisonous mushroom

Mushroom Clubs

Cortinarius gills. Photo by Craig Bennett.

Mushroom Biology and Taxonomy

Fungal Fundamentals

What is a mushroom made of?
How many mushrooms are there?
Deconstructing the Kingdoms