Mushrooms

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Basidiomycetes: Mushrooms with gills; Mushrooms with primitive gills; Mushrooms and fungi with pores; Fungi with spines; Stomach fungi; Bird's nest fungi; Stinkhorns; Club and spindle fungi; Coral fungi; Jelly fungi. He is best known as an expert on mushrooms and roses who wrote more than forty books on gardening and wild plants and fungi; many with Martyn Rix. Three months into his national service in the RAF in Canada, he says, he somehow persuaded an air vice marshal to let him go home on the basis that he didn’t want to be trained to kill people. Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, Mushrooms contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and includes all the latest botanical and common names as well as current ecological information on endangered species.

Having sold more than 750,000 copies in Europe of his previous title on mushrooms, Roger Phillips new book once again sets the benchmark.

Not only did Phillips increase his knowledge of edible tubers, he became friends with an eminently quotable chief: “How long will it take mankind to realise that you cannot eat money? Roger developed an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses, and annuals using modern photographic techniques.

The culmination of over thirty years work, this authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with the most up-to-date information and original photographs.

The late Roger Phillips's 'Mushrooms' is an invaluable visual index for chefs and for amateur mycologists looking for information on the fungi species of the UK and beyond. Despite all the changes he has witnessed at first hand as a result of factory farming, he remains an optimist.