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A Good Book...
    #21969803 - 07/20/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Hi,

I am looking for a good book, or two, for the identification of fungi in the UK. There seems to be plenty of information on the web to identify liberty caps, so I am more interested in edible and poisonous species native to the British Isles, to help me with foraging activities.

Mushrooms by Roger Phillips looks to be a generally accepted 'complete' reference, and I have also been attracted to The Kindon of Fungi by Jens H Peterson, while not UK specific, it would seem to have relevance to my locality.

In addition to a good home reference, I am also interested in purchasing a decent field guide, and this is where I am having difficulty. I understand that the field guide will have to be limited for the sake of brevity, to make it portable, but there seems to be critics for most field guides and I don't know where best to throw my rather limited funds.

I am also in the market for a microscope that is suffieient to view individual spores and would like opinions on the best value microscopes available in the UK, as well as the absolute cheapest suitable for the intended task. My research to date would indicate x600 is minimum and x1000 is about ideal. Is this correct? Anyone have an opinion on the Apex Practioner or the Bresser Optus? These are about as much as I could fork out with my liquidity being what

My thanks in advance for your advice and opinion :smile:


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Re: A Good Book... [Re: LiberT]
    #21969826 - 07/20/15 09:02 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Both of those microscopes you mention only have one eyepiece, so you don't want them.  For info on your first scope see http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21519335


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Re: A Good Book... [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #21969843 - 07/20/15 09:09 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Thanks Alan, will do.


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Re: A Good Book... [Re: LiberT]
    #21979226 - 07/22/15 07:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

How about a field ID guide for the UK? I would be very interested to hear what others use.


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