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RR 2012/263 The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL 2010 655 pp. ISBN 978 0 226 72117 0 $55
Keywords Fungi, Guides and handbooks
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121211251817
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...