Which mushrooms are good to eat?
Which mushrooms are good to eat?
There are about 10,000 different kinds of mushrooms, but relatively few -- perhaps about 100 -- are considered good to eat. If you plan on eating a mushroom, you'd better be absolutely sure of its identity, because 100 out of 10,000 isn't many (1%). And some of those other 9.900 are poisonous. So be very careful: check the identification with a truly knowledgeable person before you heat up the frying pan.
Many edible fungi are illustrated in Chapter 18 of The Fifth Kingdom.