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Mushrooms Mushrooms for the collector is a potentially dangerous hobby.  However for those who just try to identify mushrooms, mushrooms have a powerful advantage over other plants.  Mushrooms especially those that occur on trees can be all year including the winter.  Identifying mushrooms is one way to lift the winter blues.  A fair warning: some mushrooms are rather difficult to identify, many require a microscope and some mushroom identification can defy even experts.  Good luck. Mushrooms of Northeast North America Pub If you read English this is the must have.  Gorgeous book filled with photographs of mushrooms.  Now in second editon (as of Mar 2016). Le grand livre des champignons du Québec et de l'est du Canada Pub (French) If you can read French this is the book to get.  It has the most species covered and is more local than the above book. A Field Guide to Mushrooms Am Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of Canada Archive Older and out of print but has a good key. Mushrooms of the Northeast: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms Am Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada GB Mushrooms of Northeastern North America GB Links on mushrooms in general ... MushroomExpert.com Keys to North American mushrooms and plenty of other information. George Barron's Website on Fungi is done by the author of Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada and contains many pictures and much information that is not in his field guides. [Broken] American Mushrooms This website (done by the coauthor of Mushrooms of Northeastern North America) includes interesting mushroom trivia such as the coolest mushrooms, tiniest and smelliest.   North American Mycological Association Fungi - The Fifth Kingdom Has many products available of interest.  It has a field guide that is both in book form and CD-ROM.  Many of the products are keys to specific groups of fungi Boletes The Boletes of North America The Boleti of Northeastern North America North American Boletes GB A guide to sponge mushrooms. The Boleti of Northeastern North America GB The Boletes of North America GB Broken The Boletes of Michigan Scan Boletes of Eastern North America Am  Other Mushroom Groups How to Know the Non-Gilled Fleshy Fungi Field Guide to North American Truffles GB Ontario has very few truffle species. Amanitas of North America ??? Amanitas are poisonous. The North America Species of Pholiota GB How to Know the Non-Gilled Fleshy Fungi GB Internet Arhicve?? Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World GB Psilocybin is a psychoactive ingredient in many mushroom species.   Ascomycete Fungi of North America: A Mushroom Reference Guide GB Am Local Fungi of Elgin Country Fungi of Elgin County William G. Stewart, E. Stewart, I Carmichael 1999 softcover 21 p. (species list) Mushrooms of the Great Lakes Region GB Mushrooms of the Boreal Forest GB Mushrooms of Northeastern North America GB How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus Series GB Mycological Society of Toronto The Mushroom Page A guide to mushrooms from the Soo Naturalists (Sault Saint Marie).  Contains book reviews. About Fungi Mushrooms Demystified GB Combines a field guide with an easily digestible natural history of mushroom.  Not sure the scope of the book, may be all the US and Canada. The Kingdom Fungi The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds and Lichens Archive, A book Slime Molds While not technically included with the mushrooms taxonomically anymore, I included it here out of tradition.  Slime molds are not plants, animals or fungi, they are something different. Illustrated Guide to Common Slimemolds Myxomycetes: A Handbook of Slimemolds GB Am Slimemolds of the world, natural history, keys to orders, selected species covered. The Curious Observer's Guide to Slime Mold of UC Santa Cruz and Beyond Am Very readable, 22 species covered. Illustrated Guide to Common Slimemolds GB Links on Slime Molds ... Slime Molds: 3-Identification A film from 1961 on slime mold identification Slime Mold Identification and Appreciation A facebook group The North American Slimemolds An e-book from 1922.  Technical. .