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Mushrooms and Toadstools

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The only truly pocket-sized photographic guide to mushrooms and toadstools of Britain and Europe.

This Collins Gem is being reissued in flexibinding, providing the durability of a hardback with the flexibility of a paperback. The stylish new cover design will enlilven this and 70 other bestselling Gems.

There are 4000 species of mushroom and toadstool in Britain and Europe. Larger umbrella-shaped fungi with a cap and stem are known as mushrooms if they are edible and toadstools if they are poisonous.Collins Gem Mushrooms and Toadstools describes over 230 species which are to be commonly found.

Each mushroom or toadstool entry includes:

A photograph and clear description of what it looks like

Details of size, habitat and season when it can be found

An indication of whether it is edible or poisonous

The names of similar species with which the mushroom or toadstool could be confused, and details of the differences between them

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780004722702
Publication date:
Author: Patrick Harding
Publisher: Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: Collins Gem
Genres: Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest

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