Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists, (Paperback)

from Sandydog1

If I was a botany post-grad, I'd give this 5 stars. If I was a professor teaching the phyisiology and taxonomy of non-vascular plants, I'd assign this in a heartbeat. But for a general nature reader? Yikes! A Med school student would have trouble with the bizarre, foreign, terms dealing with micr...

from hayleyscomet

The book is basically a sweeping overview of the entire field of mycology, from the viewpoint of one researcher and mycophile. That is, he tells not only of the fungi he's seen, but of the other researchers he's worked with and met, and the historical figures whose work he's drawn from (and been ...

from hayleyscomet

The book is basically a sweeping overview of the entire field of mycology, from the viewpoint of one researcher and mycophile. That is, he tells not only of the fungi he's seen, but of the other researchers he's worked with and met, and the historical figures whose work he's drawn from (and been ...