Fascinating Fungi of the North Woods

by Cora Mollen

Overview

Learn about fascinating fungi of the North Woods in the first guide exclusively for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The book's 120 species are represented with color illustrations, while the pages are loaded with natural history info and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936571031
Publisher:	Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/12/2012
Series:	Fascinating Fungi
Pages:	138
Sales rank:	990,799
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 6.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dora Mollen has lived in northern Wisconsin for 33 years. Study of the fungi in the area has been key interest of hers. In 1996 she helped form the Northstate Mycological Club and has been club coordinator ever since. She leads Fungi forays, lectures and teaches classes aimed at introducing students to the fascinating fungi of the North Woods.

Rick Kollath started illustrating in nursery school and now he's lucky enough to draw pictures for a living. He runs a design studio in Duluth and co-owns Kollath-Stensaas Publishing with Sparky Stensaas. Rick has taught in Austria and traveled around Europe as a climbing bum. Now he gets thrills riding the big waves on the big lake in his little sea kayak.

Larry Weber has recently retired from a 40-year career as a science teacher. He taught students from seventh grade up to graduate school. His awards include the Minnesota Secondary Science Teacher of the Year in 1993 and the National Biology Teacher Association's Middle School Life Science Teacher of the Year for 1998. Larry writes a weekly phenology column for a local newspaper, presents phenology updates for two radio stations and is a regular contributor to the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. He lives with his wife on an old farm in Carlton County, Minnesota where he watches, photographs and writes about critters.

Bonnie Wenborg is a transplant from Chicago where she drew and sketched portraits of her classmates beginning in grade school. She graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and has worked as a graphic designer for most of her adult life. She gained a wide variety of skills working in small graphic design studios, print shops and a large advertising agency. She's lived on both coasts but thinks Minnesota's best. "It's a pleasure and a privilege to be an illustrator - whether painting mushrooms, jeans or toolbags."

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
FUNGI: AN INTRODUCTION 1
DICHOTOMOUS KEY 8
THE QUESTION OF EDIBILITY 10
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE 11
GILLED ON GROUND
Fly Amanita 12
Destroying Angel 14
Tawny Grisette 15
Yellow Swamp Russula 16
Emetic Russula 17
Short-stalked White Russula 18
Rooted Collybia 19
Chanterelle 20
False Chanterelle 21
Forest Funnel Cap 22
The Miller 22
Wine Cap Stopharia 23
Saffron Milk Cap 24
Indigo Milk Cap 25
Pepper Milk Cap 25
Violet (Purple) Cort 26
Spotted Cort 26
Rimmed-Bulb Cort 27
Red-gilled Cort 28
Witch's Hat 29
Scarlet Waxy Cap 30
White (Ivory) Waxy Cap 31
Parrot Waxy Cap 31
Alcohol Inky 32
Shaggy Mane 33
Meadow Mushroom 34
Shaggy Parasol 35
Belwit 36
GILLED ON WOOD
Bleeding Fairy Helmet 38
Pinwheel Marasmius 39
Fuzzy Foot 40
Jack O' Lantern 41
Sharp-scaly Pholiota 42
Scaly Pholiota 42
Split Gill 43
Crinkle Gill 44
Oyster Mushroom 44
Netted Rhodotus 46
Tree Volvariella 47
Deer Mushroom 48
Clustered Collybia 48
Platterfull Mushroom 49
Honey Mushroom 50
Velvet-footed Pax 52
Velvet Foot 53
GILLED ON OTHER
Powder Cap 54
Oak-leaf Marasmius 55
Conifer-cone Baeospora 55
Dung Roundhead 56
NON-GILLED ON GROUND
King Bolete 58
Slippery Jack (White Pine Bolete) 58
Painted Bolete 60
Blue-staining Bolete 60
Aspen Scaber Stalk 61
Chrome Foot 62
Old Man of the Woods 62
Black Morel 63
Conifer False Morel (Brain Fungus) 64
Saddle-shaped False Morel 65
White Elfin Saddle 65
Black Elfin Saddle 66
Scaly Vase 66
Funnel Polypore (Tiger's Eye) 67
Wooly Velvet Polypore 67
Hedgehog Mushroom 68
Bleeding Tooth 68
Green-capped Jelly Baby 69
Common Jelly Baby 69
Jellied False Coral 69
Dead Man's Fingers 70
Yellow Fairy Fan 70
Strap-shaped Coral 71
Purple Club Coral 71
Yellow Spindle Coral 72
Crested Coral 72
Yellow-tipped Coral 73
Dog Stinkhorn 73
Pear-shaped Puffball 74
Giant Puffball 75
Gem-studded Puffball 76
Pigskin Poison Puffball 76
Barometer Earthstar 77
Striate Bird's-Nest (Splash Cup) 78
Gray Bird's-Nest 78
Scarlet Cup 79
Orange Peel 79
Black Trumpet 80
Horn of Plenty 80
NON-GILLED ON WOOD
Toothed Jelly 82
Lemon Drops 83
Orange Jelly 83
Eyelash Cup 84
Blue Stain (Green Cups) 85
Brown Cup 85
Devil's Urn 85
Artist's Bracket 86
Lacquered Polypore 87
Hemlock Varnish Shelf 88
Red-belted Polypore 88
Birch Polypore 89
Yellow-red Gill Polypore 90
Turkey Tail 90
Dryad's Saddle 91
Sulphur Shelf 92
Violet Tooth 93
Tinder Polypore 93
Northern Tooth 94
Bear's Head Tooth 94
Comb Tooth 95
Crown-tipped Coral 95
NON-GILLED ON OTHER
Pine Cone Fungus 96
Black Knot 96
Lobster Mushroom 97
Aborted Entoloma 98
SLIME MOLDS
Blackberry Slime 100
Chocolate Tube Slime 101
Tapioca Slime 102
Red Raspberry Slime 102
FUNGUS CHECKLIST 104
TITLES OF INTEREST 106
GLOSSARY 108
INDEX 110