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new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi
#19632702 - 02/28/14 11:01 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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A new book on fungi within australia has just been released, "A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi" by Dr. G Gates and Dr. D Ratkowsky - launched last thursday (Feb 27th). while it has a Tasmanian focus, it will most likely be useful in mainland states as well, in particular Victoria, and maybe NSW.
I have been awaiting the release of this book for quite a while now, and it has come to fruition sooner than i expected, and is an excellent read. it is most certainly an instant companion to the fuhrer book that many of us refer to on a regular basis, and i look forward to seeing whether it in fact displaces it as the fungi season starts and i get into ID'ing.
The book is broken down into gilled, non-gilled and ascomycetes, and "includes boletes, polypores, leather fungi, cup and disc fungi, puffballs and all other artificial groups that constitute the macrofungi". and then into the respective Genus. A lovely feature of the book is the discriptions of Genus at the start of their respective sections. then there are photos and descriptions of individual well known and common (or sometimes not so common) species, including a calender of when they are expected to be found - brilliant.
This is a field guide meant for your back pack. it has a solid binding and feels nice in the hands, and im looking forward to seeing how well it ages in tromps through the wilderness in my daypack, particulary in the rain as i try to id specimens. info about spore prints seem limited to the genus introduction which feel a bit odd initially. there is a key and table of key features at the beginning of the book for those so inclined, and a nice intoduction. There is no information on edibility or traditional uses.
Apart from a few photos and consultations on species the book is a solidly tasmanian effort, even being printed in Tas.
Congratulations Dr. Gates and Dr. Ratkowsky on an incredible effort, i personally am glad for this addition to my library as i feel it was well needed here in Tasmania.
Edited by obtuse (03/11/14 04:57 PM)
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Re: new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi [Re: obtuse]
#19632809 - 02/28/14 11:42 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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obtuse said: There is no information on edibility or traditional uses.
A strange lack of feature indeed, unless they're aiming at the hobby mycologist rather than the fungivore. Yet adding that information would, I suspect, raise the market value of such a book.
Nevertheless it looks like a good effort - here I sit on the other side of the globe we're still more or less left with almost 25 year old material (unless one brings the "Funga Nordica" or similar type "bricks" into the field).
Seems to me that writing proper field guides is a weary task. Ever so often I come across "new" ones in book stores, which usually proves to be nothing but reprints of forgotten (and somewhat redundant) editions.
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Re: new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi [Re: obtuse]
#19632863 - 02/28/14 11:59 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Good to see I'm not the only one that gets excited about obtaining a new field guide. I just found a great guide for all of North America that I cannot wait to put to use.
Thanks for sharing
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Re: new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi [Re: obtuse]
#19633451 - 03/01/14 04:41 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I am friends with Genevieve Gates on Facebook, she is a really good identifier.
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Re: new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi [Re: obtuse] 1
#19638148 - 03/02/14 03:56 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Gates and Ratkowsky are myco-superheroes
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Re: new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi [Re: TimmiT]
#19659662 - 03/06/14 02:58 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's a great book and it fills a huge gap in knowledge of temperate Australian fungi. Well done Genevieve and David.
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#25187004 - 05/06/18 03:56 AM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
fuckthepopulation said: a third edition for Utas students.
tell me more
time to make an alumni visit i think. unless you mean the fungiflip
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obtuse
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sure.
I'll ask her
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obtuse
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do you have url? maybe pm it to me
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obtuse
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there is no 3rd edition nor is there any uni tas only version.
no idea what you were looking at
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