Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Mushroom Grower's Guide: F

By Paul Stamets. Expanded to 574 pages and more than 500 photographs and diagrams, this fully updated edition of the internationally acclaimed mushroom grower's guide adds 6 more mushroom species to the 25 species already described. Advanced cultivation techniques for Agaricus brasiliensis, Pleurotus tuberregium, Sparassis crispa, Trametes versicolor, Tremella fuciformis and Agaricus brunnescens (''Portobello'') mushrooms are have been added to the Third Edition. This book covers in detail state-of-the-art commercial cultivation techniques, liquid culture inoculation methods, mycological landscaping, growing room and lab designs, troubleshooting and more. Commonly referred to as ''The New Testament'' by amateur and professional mycologists alike. The best book on mushroom cultivation just keeps getting better! ''Thank you Paul Stamets for your two great books, they allowed me to start an 800 lb./day Agaricus farm in no more than 7 months.'' Nazem Ghandour, Le Champignon Parfait, Tripoli, Lebanon ''We have been producing the Himematsutake in Brazil for more than a year, and that wouldn't have been as successful as it is without two of your books: ‘Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms’ and ‘The Mushroom Cultivator’.'' Rodrigo Henriques, Royal Sun, Asa Norte, Brazil

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: A Guide to Identification: F

By Paul Stamets. The most comprehensive field guide to the psilocybin-active species ever published, this field guide illustrates a wide range of species spanning the world. With excellent color photographs, nearly 100 species are fully described, including close relatives and poisonous look-alikes. A book without comparison, this field guide stands alone in its scope and describes many new species not seen in any previous works. Far more than just a field guide, this book will prove useful to mycologists, scholars, physicians, and the passionately curious. 6 x 9 inches, 256 pages. Softcover.