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Robert K. Macadam

Best known for helping shape a classic American field guide to mushrooms, this early mycology writer brought practical advice and careful observation to a subject that can be both fascinating and risky.

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Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine, Robert K. Macadam

About the author

Robert K. Macadam is known chiefly as the co-author, with Charles McIlvaine, of Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi, Edible and Poisonous; One Thousand American Fungi. Library and catalog records consistently connect him with that substantial reference work on identifying edible and poisonous fungi.

In editions and digital reproductions of the book, Macadam is credited especially with material on toadstool poisons, their treatment, and instructional guidance for students and readers. That gives his contribution a practical, reader-focused flavor: not just naming fungi, but helping people approach them more safely and confidently.

Reliable biographical details about his life beyond this work are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is best to view him as a somewhat elusive figure in early mushroom literature rather than a fully documented public personality.