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De Setas por Madrid y la Zona Centro Peninsular: Guía par Encontrar y Conocer las Mejores Setas Comestibles [Mushrooms of Madrid and the Peninsular Central Zone: A Guide to Find and Identify the Best Edible Mushrooms]

Field / Identification Guide Identification Key
By: Vicente Sevilla(Author)
207 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
Publisher: Guadarramistas
De Setas por Madrid y la Zona Centro Peninsular: Guía par Encontrar y Conocer las Mejores Setas Comestibles [Mushrooms of Madrid and the Peninsular Central Zone: A Guide to Find and Identify the Best Edible Mushrooms]
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  • De Setas por Madrid y la Zona Centro Peninsular: Guía par Encontrar y Conocer las Mejores Setas Comestibles [Mushrooms of Madrid and the Peninsular Central Zone: A Guide to Find and Identify the Best Edible Mushrooms] ISBN: 9788460823568 Paperback Oct 2015 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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Language: Spanish

This book is the most comprehensive and informative guide to edible mushrooms of Madrid. It includes detailed information and photographs of the 60 most prized fungi species, all classified by their natural habitat – deciduous or coniferous forest, banks, meadows, etc. – in order to be easy to locate by amateur mycologist.

In all, more than a hundred fungi are mentioned and descriptive, comprehensive and accessible information is provided through explanatory sheets that speak not only of the detailed aspects of each mushroom, but also describe smell, taste and texture of its meat. In addition, fundamental data on the habitat in which they grow, when and where to find them, how to recognize and distinguish them from others of similar appearance, as well as keys to not confuse them with dangerous species, precautions to consider and culinary value of each are included. All this from the hand of the author, the expert mycologist Vicente Sevilla, great popularizer of nature and presenter of the programme El Encantador de Setas on the channel Telemadrid.

De Setas por Madrid y la Zona Centro Peninsular is also a complete guide, a book that teaches its readers environmentally friendly ways of collecting mushrooms, healthy mycological practices, the most amazing sights in the world of fungi and their prominence throughout history.

Summary in Spanish:
Este libro es la guía más completa y divulgativa sobre setas comestibles de Madrid. Incluye información y fotografías detalladas de las 60 especies de hongos más apreciadas, todas ellas clasificadas por su hábitat natural – bosques caducifolios, de coníferas, riberas, prados, etc. – para que sean muy fácils de localizar por el micólogo aficionado.

En total, se mencionan más de un centenar de hongos y se ofrece información descriptiva, completa y asequible, a través de fichas explicativas que hablan no solo del aspecto detallado de cada hongo, sino también de su olor, sabor y textura de su carne. Además, se incluyen datos fundamentales sobre el hábitat en el que crecen, cuándo y dónde encontrarlas, cómo reconocerlas y distinguirlas de otras de aspecto similar, así como las claves para no confundirlas con especies peligrosas, las precauciones a tener en cuenta y el valor culinario de cada una de ellas. Todo ello de la mano de su autor, el experto micólogo Vicente Sevilla, gran divulgador de la naturaleza y conductor del programa El Encantador de Setas, de Telemadrid.

De Setas por Madrid y la Zona Centro Peninsular es, además de una completa guía, un libro que nos enseña cómo recolectar setas respetando el medio ambiente, las prácticas micológicas saludables, las curiosidades más sorprendentes del mundo de los hongos, así como su protagonismo a lo largo de la historia.

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Field / Identification Guide Identification Key
By: Vicente Sevilla(Author)
207 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
Publisher: Guadarramistas
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