The Book of Fungi: A Life‐Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

This is a beautifully photographed guide to 600 macroscopic fungi that will give readers a sense of the tremendous variety of fungi that exist in the world. The colour photographs of species include pictures at the actual size of macroscopic fruiting bodies and sometimes more revealing close up pictures. The work is limited to a small proportion of all fungi, since most species traditionally know as fungi are exclusively microscopic. This work includes only species from the ascomycota and basidomycota and symbiotic partnerships, known as lichens. The array of different colours and forms of fungi contained within this work will...