Wild Mushrooms Online — UK wild mushroom field guide & foragers club
Know exactly what you've found. Never eat anything you are not sure of. There is no substitute for proper guidance on a foray with an expert. Correct mushroom identification takes time and experience.
- Species
- 47
- Good edibles
- 16
- Deadly
- 6
Out now — October
Never eat a wild mushroom on the strength of a website alone. Some deadly species look very like good edibles. Check every feature, and get an expert opinion if there is any doubt at all.
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Learn these first
The dangerous ones. Recognise them on sight and the rest of foraging gets a lot calmer.
Brown Rollrim
Paxillus involutus
Once eaten widely in Europe, now known to cause a fatal immune reaction that builds up over repeated meals.
Deadly Webcap
Cortinarius rubellus
A modest orange-brown mushroom whose poison destroys the kidneys weeks after the meal.
Death Cap
Amanita phalloides
Responsible for the great majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide. Learn this one before anything else.
Destroying Angel
Amanita virosa
Pure white, elegant and lethal. The one to check for whenever you pick a white mushroom.
Start with these species
Full guideChanterelle
Cantharellus cibarius
Egg-yolk yellow, trumpet-shaped and smelling faintly of apricots. One of the safest and finest edibles once learned.
Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus sulphureus
Vivid sulphur-yellow and orange brackets on standing trees, with a texture famously like chicken breast.
Deadly Webcap
Cortinarius rubellus
A modest orange-brown mushroom whose poison destroys the kidneys weeks after the meal.
Death Cap
Amanita phalloides
Responsible for the great majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide. Learn this one before anything else.
Destroying Angel
Amanita virosa
Pure white, elegant and lethal. The one to check for whenever you pick a white mushroom.
Field Mushroom
Agaricus campestris
The classic mushroom of unimproved pasture: white cap, pink gills darkening to brown, and a clean mushroomy smell.
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Opinel No.8 Mushroom Knife
Curved blade with a boar bristle brush in the handle. The standard foraging knife for good reason.
- Around 35 GBP
Traditional Willow Basket
Open weave so spores drop as you walk and nothing sweats into mush. A plastic bag ruins a haul.
- Around 30 GBP
Collins Fungi Guide
The most complete British field guide in one volume. Heavy, but nothing else comes close for detail.
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