How can you tell which wild growing mushrooms are fine for eating?

Answer 1

Get a guide and be very careful.

Answer 2

You can't ,because you are not qualified to see the difference between all the species:there are hundreds of look a likes.
Even whith a guide book with pictures you can make big fatal mistakes.
A friend of me comes from Tsecho-Slovakia.
She brings me sun dried mushrooms every year.
The population there know which ones are to be used by hand me down knowledge.But from time to time it still goes wrong.
Why risk your life?
Once dead:there is nothing you can eat after that event.
Buy strange looking mushrooms in shops.They are available here at outside markets and some of them taste great.I give you the name of one:a chestnut mushroom.Delicious!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

that is a question that i want answered for years the real and only way is to go with some who have the knowledge i found that it is a hand me down thing to be truely safe ..as if you read books you see one and think its ok and then in poisionous section there is one the exact same.....there are some that are that are for sure ok to eat...but they are far and few between ...i was sationed in Va. and an old timer was showing me but he got very ill and there went my dream of being able to pick the right mushroom...i did read a book once it said that take a small pinch off and taste it and if it dont make you sick its ok...i going to do that for sure.........duh....if you are young enough try and find some and learn and i am sure it could even be profitable......cheers

Answer 4

Buy a pictorial guide, make sure it's an extensive one and if you have any doubt.... Fry not that fungi !

There's supprisingly few poisonus mushrooms growing in the UK, although there's certainly a few that would not be good for you, there are just one or two that WILL kill you, with no antidote... Hence the need for caution.

A good staring point is here :

http://www.nifg.org.uk/edible_fungi.htm

Answer 5

Buy a book with all the different types of mushrooms. This is not really the place to describe or tell which or which not you can eat.


www.wild-harvest.com

Answer 6

This is not a job for an amateur unless you want to risk killing yourself by picking and eating the deadly mushrooms. Best join a club of experts and go with them to learn how to identify and cook and eat the safe ones. I understand they are delicious too.

Answer 7

DON'T EVEN TRY! The only safe mushroom you can count on are puff-ball mushrooms and unless you can identify them in the early stages, you are taking chances. All puff-ball mushrooms are edible, but some of them taste nasty.

Answer 8

There are thousands of regularly harvested edible mushrooms in the world, in addition to literally hundreds of thousands of other potentially edible species.

Here is a list of a whole lot of edible mushrooms with pictures for identification:
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/edible.html

Answer 9

If you don't know how to tell, you'd better not pick them. Buy them from a shop. If someones willing to show you it can be picked up fairly quickly. We have some really poisonous fungi/toadstool in the UK.

Oh and don't think using a book will help, don't listen to some of the answers that say this - town dwellers no doubt.

Answer 10

the ones that dont kill you! but seriously dont even think of picking unless you get a mushroom expert to go out with you a few times !

Answer 11

I wouldn't eat wild ones only in the shop like 95% are poison