Unlock the Secrets of Mushrooms with David Arora's Book, 'Mushrooms Demystified'

Amazon Customer: Great mushroom resource for identifications.

United States on Dec 01, 2023

Olena Kutsenko: I'm a beginner in mushrooms foraging and I'm getting so much great information.

Canada on Nov 03, 2023

Gordon Duclos: Good book if you want to dive in. If an updated version came out, I would also buy it in a heartbeat.

United States on Sep 30, 2023

Hector Plaza: Good Book but book cover damaged 💔

United States on Aug 31, 2023

Michael JMichael J: I put off buying this book for some time, as I accumulated smaller and less expensive field guides that I could slip into a pocket or bag. Eventually, though, I realized that not every mushroom I found or photographed could be identified from those books. I ordered this book, and it arrived today- all 960 pages of it.

It’s a big book, and it’s mostly text, though it does have 217 color plates and somewhat more black and white photos of varying quality. But what makes this so valuable to the mushroom enthusiast is the text. Using identification keys similar to those used in various plant identification handbooks, Arora leads your through a game of twenty questions, identifying and narrowing down candidates by physical features. Is it gilled? How big is it? Where is it found? What color are the spores?

This is probably not the first, or even the second or third book the prospective mushroom hunter or photographer should buy. But once you’ve mastered the most common ones, and are starting to find mushrooms that don’t seem to appear in any of your guidebooks… it’s time to buy Mushrooms Demystified.

United States on Aug 31, 2021

Stoney: > "Mushrooms Demystified" is a virtual encyclopedia of the macrofungi of North America with descriptions of over 2000 species, with probably 5000 species mentioned in the keys.
> TAXONOMIC KEYS -- Because of the extensive coverage, the many keys in MD are actually useful (unlike the keys in most guidebooks). Most "taxonomical keys" are artificial and incomplete, which means that, practically speaking, they are usually more misleading than useful. The keys in most guidebooks cover less than 20% of the species in the area that they allegedly cover. The keys in MD are sufficiently complete, for all parts of the US to be useful for perhaps 80% of the species you are likely to encounter, anywhere. But the keys are best used only when you want to separate two or several very similar species.
> Many (perhaps most) species with full entries, do not have accompanying photos. For the species with photos, most of the photos are black and white. The black and white photos are printed in low contrast on matte, dull paper, so the black and white photos do not show the detail that they could. The relatively small collection of 217 color photos (in the...

United States on Dec 07, 2020

Amazon Customer: As promised the book was delivered on the very next day of the purchase and is one of the most comprehensive field guide I have come across to identify wild mushrooms.
It is a well planned book with elaborate description and photographs of all the fungi for their easy identification.

India on Jul 06, 2019

Naara Palestina: El libro en sí es una muy buena adquisición, trae una buena clave de identificaciñon, ilustraciones y descripciones macro y microscópicas.
En cuanto al envío, llegó en perfectas condiciones y a tiempo.

Mexico on Apr 15, 2018

Biolatti Corrado: Libro contente una quantità notevole di informazioni, il tutto accompagnato da un umorismo sottile e mai invadente. L'identificazione dei funghi non si può quasi mai basare sul loro colore, quindi il fatto che le foto siano in bianco e nero non inficia minimamente la qualità del prodotto .

Italy on Apr 01, 2018

Karin Struyk: amazing book!

United Kingdom on May 04, 2017