This book is simply the most comprehensive and useful guide available for understanding mushrooms. Written with an wit and engaging style that makes this the "Bible" for all avid mushroom fans. Mushrooms Demystified features:descriptions, photographs, and keys to over 2000 speciesa Beginner's Checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushroomsdetailed chapters on terminology, classification, habitats, mushroom cookery, mushroom toxins, and the meanings behind the scientific names of mushrooms