Detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos. Use Foraging Mushrooms as a field guide or as a delightful armchair read. No matter what you’re looking for, be it the curative Heal-All or a snack, this guide will enhance your next backpacking trip or easy stroll around the garden, and may just provide some new favorites for your dinner table.

The mushroom has a wide number of medicinal properties such as being an antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, antidiabetic, immune enhancer, and also used for the treatment of various diseases such as anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretics, etc. According to current information, there are approximately twelve-thousand species in the world, and out of them, 2000 species are reported as being edible. Around 35 edible mushroom varieties are cultivated commercially, whereas almost 200 wild species could be used for medicinal purposes. This book also covers the diversity of edible mushrooms and describes several applications as an alternative source for food production and clinical approach. This book includes: • the diverse types of mushroom and their enzymatic activity • importance of nutritional properties along with their food product development • industrial and clinical applications of macro fungi, i.e., degradation of dyes, anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, etc.

In The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised, Gary Lincoff escorts you through the culinary history of the mushroom and on to preparing and serving the fungi.

This book explores mushroom history, as well as their possible uses in the future. Chapters are dedicated to mushrooms that are promising for medicinal uses.

Explore the world of mushrooms and all they have to offer your body. Learn about mushrooms' abilities to combat specific diseases as well as their inherent health benefits. Included are directions for making your own mushroom medicine (like extracts and powders) and recipes for incorporating mushrooms into your meals, so that you can get the most out of the healing benefits of mushrooms.

William Robinson's 1870s book is a complete source of information on the culture of mushrooms.

The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise is a textbook explaining the edible quality of various types of mushrooms. Excerpt: "The book then is for the beginner, and all beginners; the college student will find that this is the guide to use when he is ready to begin studying the mushrooms; the teachers in the schools should all begin to study mushrooms now, and for the purpose, they will find this book advantageous; the people who see mushrooms Often but do not know them may find here a book that is a help."

The production of Agaricus bisporus is a major, world-wide, highly mechanized process. Healthy crops are essential if yields, quality and profitability are to be maintained. Pests and diseases are a major cause of crop losses and this book covers their recognition, biology and control. New pests and diseases are described together with changes in t

Children’s book, How the mushroom queen Mara protected the forest from the attack of the sorcerer Robin, who turns plants into stone. Initially, in a magical forest far away, there lived a witch girl named Mara. She was the queen of mushrooms and protector of all living things in the forest. One day, an evil sorcerer named Lesley appeared, and he had the power to turn plants into stone. He wanted to take over the forest and make it his own.