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WHEELING -- The Ohio County Public Library's next Lunch With Books program will look at mushrooms native to Appalachia.
The program will begin at noon on Tuesday, April 2, at the library in downtown Wheeling.
From one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters -- Walter E. Sturgeon -- comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia.
Edibility and toxicity, habitat, ecology and detailed diagnostic features of the disparate forms they take throughout their life cycles are all included, enabling the reader to identify species without the use of a microscope or chemicals.
Sturgeon's "Appalachian Mushrooms -- A Field Guide" is unparalleled in its accuracy and currency. This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts.