589.2: Mushroom Hunting

According to Maxine Stone, past president of the Missouri Mycological Society and author of Missouri’s Wild Mushrooms, April to early May is the best time to find morel mushrooms in Missouri.  So if you’ve never been mushroom hunting, but might like to try, come by the library and check out a copy of Stone’s book.  The book is well organized and includes color photographs of wild mushrooms.  It covers a wide range of mushroom-hunting topics such as identification, ethics, cooking, preservation, and more.

To hunt for more books about mushrooms at the library, just browse under the call numbers 579.6 or 589.2.

Pictured in this blog post are details of a beautiful chart from a two-volume book I found in the stacks.  The 1916 book, titled Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms,  is by famous American mycologist (mushroom scientist) James Murrill (1869-1957).  The first volume consists entirely of the oversized mushroom chart, which folds up neatly to fit inside an ordinary-looking book.  The second volume is a handbook that describes the chart.  A truly tasty set for mycophiles and bibliophiles alike!  Happy hunting!