A Colour Atlas of Poisonous Fungi

Hardcover  295 pages,142 colour and b/w illustrations  ISBN 0723415765      £40.00

Using up-to-date findings, this atlas provides a full colour photographic guide to poisonous fungi, and discusses the methods of treatment likely to prove most effective. It also helps the reader to understand the toxic substances present, the degree of toxicity of each fungus, and its likely effects.

The atlas includes advice on how to deal with fungi in general, and gives emphasis to the explanation of technical terms. Identification keys enable all the Western and Central European genera of lamellate and tubulate fungi, and their poisonous representatives, to be identified. A details bibliography completes this comprehensive scientific and medical resource.

Contents:
1. Poisoning by fungi. 2. The poisoning syndromes and the poisonous fungi: Phalloids syndrome; Orellanus syndrome; Gyromitra syndrome; Muscarine syndrome; Pantherine syndrome; Psilocybin syndrome; Coprinus syndrome; Paxillus syndrome; Gastrointestinal syndrome; Poisoning by raw fungi. Fungi with suspect constituents. 3. Introduction to the identification of fungi.