All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms Indigenous Authors Plant Characteristics Family Name Rosaceae

Plant Characteristics Family Name Rosaceae Species Name Cercocarpus minutiflorus Common Name San Diego Mountain Mahogany Plant Type Shrub Sun Exposure Coast-Sun

Milkweeds are the only food source for Monarch caterpillars

It is easily pruned into a small tree shape

Birds eat the berries

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All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms Indigenous Authors Plant Characteristics Family Name RosaceaeAn illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms whether edible, poisonous, or medicinal by their key features. In leafing through these pages, you may wonder what all the fanciful, foolish, or (shudder) extraneous material is doing in a factual guide. After all, it is the practical, hands on, how to identify information that makes this book useful and gives it substance. But I ask: is it any stranger or less desirable to sprinkle the facts