The book contains theoretical knowledge of mushrooms: their structure, biology, importance in the environment; a discussion of poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisoning, ways of collecting mushrooms; tips on mushroom herbaria, a review of mushroom systematics, a glossary of terms, and plenty of descriptions and illustrations of each class and order of mushrooms. At the end are indexes of Polish and Latin names of mushrooms.
The Polish edition is based on the German edition.
Beautiful and detailed illustrations were made by Bohumil Vančura.
Publisher: State Agricultural and Forestry Publishing House, printed in Czechoslovakia, 1987.
Format: 300 x 210 mm, 312s.