The first in Russia, unparalleled photographic atlas-identifier, compiled by the famous mycologist, Candidate of Biological Sciences M.V. Vishnevsky, will allow you to spend time without any fear doing the people’s favorite pastime - picking mushrooms. You can learn to recognize at least 60 species of our best edible mushrooms and confidently distinguish them from poisonous mushrooms. You will be able to cook or prepare them correctly. You will definitely know at what time and in which forest to go for any particular mushroom. First of all, the guide is addressed to city dwellers, children of gasoline and asphalt, glass and concrete, plastic, high-tech and McDonald's. It will become an indispensable tool for those who divide plants into trees, bushes and grass, and mushrooms into edible and inedible; for those who go into the forest no further than 50 kilometers from the city; for those who are generally familiar with mushrooms mainly from plastic tubs with champignons and oyster mushrooms. The book will also be very useful for a more advanced audience, namely summer residents. They inevitably come into close contact with nature, and the further the dacha is from the city, the closer and richer this contact. Summer residents who bought or built a house not in a garden partnership, but in a real village, are terribly close to nature. They get the opportunity not only to get acquainted with a large number of different mushrooms growing in a forest that is relatively untouched by urbanization, but also to join the wisdom of mushroom picking and mushroom harvesting represented by local residents. And finally, the third category of readers - real mushroom pickers, inquisitive enthusiasts of their craft, excellent experts mushrooms and forests. Many of the data contained in the book will seem to them to have been known for a long time, or even simply banal. But they will also be able to find useful information and interesting photographs for themselves. The author is ready to answer questions from readers sent to the e-mail address [email protected].

Brief preface to the second editionIn the second edition, according to the numerous wishes of readers Latin names of the main species described were added, the tables were supplemented with explanatory comments on the most characteristic distinctive features of mushrooms, the time and place of growth were clarified, a “Mushroom Picker’s Calendar” was added, where each month of the year corresponds to the most abundant and delicious mushroom, and a number of typos were corrected.