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British Chanterelles and Tooth Fungi

An Account of the British Cantherelloid and Stipitate Hydnoid Fungi

All known British species of chanterelles, stipitate hydnoid and hericioid fungi are described and illustrated in this authoritative account.
 

Contents:

Introduction
What are chanterelles and tooth fungi?
Edible species
Ecology, distribution and conservation 
Collecting, examination and preservation 
Keys to orders and families 

Chanterelles and wood urchins
Craterellaceae (including the "horn of plenty") 
Cantharellaceae (including the edible "chanterelle") 
Hydnaceae ("wood urchins") 

Cantharellus cibarius

Hydnellum concrescens

Spine fungi
Auriscalpiaceae ("ear pick fungus")
Hericiaceae (including the "monkey head") 

Tooth fungi
Bankeraceae (Bankera and Phellodon)
Thelephoraceae (Hydnellum and Sarcodon)  Glossary
References
Index

 

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