Read this first
Safety bible
There is no folk rule that separates edible from deadly. Not silver spoons, not animals, not peeling the cap. Identification is a stack of marks, then a human who has seen the species in your bioregion.
- 1. Never eat a mushroom you have not IDed twice. Photograph cap, gills/pores/teeth, stem, and the dug base. Spore print white-gilled suspects.
- 2. Dig the base of every white-gilled mushroom. A hidden cup (volva) is how Amanitas kill people who thought they had a meadow mushroom.
- 3. Split every morel. Hollow honeycomb = maybe. Brain folds + stuffed stem = Gyromitra. Walk away.
- 4. Little brown mushrooms on wood are not food. Galerina carries the same amatoxins as the death cap.
- 5. Cook wild mushrooms. Eat a test amount. Even choice species drop some people. Never drink alcohol with inky caps.
- 6. Selling is a food business. Permits, cold chain, buyer rejection rights. You are on the hook if someone is poisoned.
- 7. Controlled fungi stay in the ground. Psilocybin is illegal to possess or sell in most of the regions in this app. We list them so you do not confuse them with Galerina — not so you can deal.
Memorize these
Death Cap
Amanita phalloides
deadly
Destroying Angel
Amanita bisporigera / A. virosa
deadly
False Morel
Gyromitra esculenta
toxic
Jack-o'-Lantern
Omphalotus olivascens / O. illudens
toxic
Deadly Galerina
Galerina marginata
deadly
Controlled — ID only
No harvest notes as a how-to. No dosing. No cultivation. No sale.
