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Title: Learn these edible mushrooms if you want to become a shroomer
Post by: uncle buck on July 23, 2010, 05:56:08 PM

Learn how to ID the below listed mushrooms and you will be a decent shroomer...
All are edible. get yourself an Audubon and or a   Peterson mushroom ID book..You can't have
enough mushrooms books.  


Mushrooms that are accepted for consumption:
a . Meadow Mushrooms (Agaricus campestris complex, no specimens that bruise yellow)
b . Blewits (Clitocybe nuda )
c . Morels (Morchella species)
d . Oysters (Pleurotus ostreatus )
e . Chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius or cinnabarinus, Craterellus fallax )
f. Giant Puffballs (Calvatia species; gleba must be pure white)
g . Hen of the Woods (Grifola Frondosa )
h . Cauliflower mushrooms (Sparassis species)
i. Bear’s Head and related tooth fungi (Hericium species)
j. Brick Caps (Naematoloma sublateritium )
k . Honey mushrooms(Armilliaria mellea and tabescens )
l. Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus complex)