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Edible wild mushrooms?
By: surfisher 10/6/2010	Posted By: surfisher - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/20/2009 Location: Princeton, ME/Kitty Hawk, NC Total Posts: 611 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 1:59 PM
These are growing in our yard up here in Maine. I was wondering if anyone knows about wild mushrooms and could possibly tell me if these are safe to eat. I looked online at a few sites, but could not positively identify them. I think they are chantelles?? Dont want to purchase a book just to identify one type of mushroom. Anyone have any idea?

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By: *homesweethome* 10/6/2010	Posted By: *homesweethome - (Send PM)* Member Since: 11/13/2009 Location: Currituck Mainland Total Posts: 1203 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 2:03 PM
I think eating wild mushrooms of which you are not absolutely sure of the type would be ... taking a chance. Really really.


By: Ilvhtrs 10/6/2010	Posted By: Ilvhtrs - (Send PM) Member Since: 10/20/2008 Location: Norton Shores, Michigan Total Posts: 4249 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 2:12 PM
Look them up on the internet. Otherwise don't eat them. the only wild ones I'd eat are morels.


By: judyk 10/6/2010	Posted By: judyk - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/1/2008 Location: eastern PA Total Posts: 16618 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 2:36 PM
i'm no pro,but don't chaterelles have a more conical shape, usually? these could be the "death cap" mushrooms.....i wouldn't eat 'em.


By: ColleenNJ 10/6/2010	Posted By: ColleenNJ - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/4/2004 Location: Total Posts: 6164 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 2:38 PM
These Look Like The Ones That Grow In My Yard...i Mow Them Over...lol


By: jendh 10/6/2010	Posted By: jendh - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/19/2009 Location: Athens, Ohio Total Posts: 425 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 2:42 PM
You could take them to a local department of wildlife office, they may be able to identify them for you. I wouldn't trust the internet exclusively, too much wrong information out there.


By: TonyC2639 10/6/2010	Posted By: TonyC2639 - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/7/2010 Location: Monroe, Va / KDH 9.5 Total Posts: 2292 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 3:50 PM
We have several varieties that occasionally grow in our yard. They are absolutely gorgeous. They make anything in the grocery store look like garbage. Unfortunately I would never eat them no matter who said they were okay.


By: BlackandGold 10/6/2010	Posted By: BlackandGold - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/17/2006 Location: Total Posts: 352 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 4:05 PM
They are absolutely [B]not [/B]chanterelles. [B]Do not eat them[/B]. If you are interested in learning about edible mushrooms, get some good field guides, join a local mushroom group, learn how to do a spore print. I have been foraging for wild mushrooms for six years and there are only a few that I am comfortable identifying based on a photo (chanterelles are one of them) and that is not one of them. Additionally, if you treat your yard with any weed killer or fertilizer you should not eat anything growing in it.


By: surfisher 10/6/2010	Posted By: surfisher - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/20/2009 Location: Princeton, ME/Kitty Hawk, NC Total Posts: 611 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 4:26 PM
Thanks for all the info and advice.... believe me, [I]I am not planning on eating them[/I]. It's just that they have never shown up in my yard before(I use no fertilizers or insect treatments) and I am just curious as to why they are suddenly here. Most web info sites recommend purchasing field guides for "IDing", but they all say "if in doubt... throw it out". "Death cap mushrooms"???? OMG... I was handling them. I knew this was going to give me nightmares. LOL


By: BlackandGold 10/6/2010	Posted By: BlackandGold - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/17/2006 Location: Total Posts: 352 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 4:56 PM
Spores can be carried on the wind, so that is probably why they just showed up. A mycologist told me "10% of wild mushrooms are worth eating, 10% are edible but don't taste good, 10%will kill you, and all the rest will make you wish you were dead."


By: notinobx 10/6/2010	Posted By: notinobx - (Send PM) Member Since: 4/20/2008 Location: Kill Devil Hills, NC Total Posts: 3693 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 5:56 PM
All wild mushrooms are edible-once!


By: Ilvhtrs 10/6/2010	Posted By: Ilvhtrs - (Send PM) Member Since: 10/20/2008 Location: Norton Shores, Michigan Total Posts: 4249 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 9:15 PM
Those mushrooms you posted a picture of look like the kind that sprout up in the yard after a lot of rain.....have you had lots of rain lately??? We get these when it's unusually wet & just mow them down...please, don't eat them.!!


By: MarvelousMoondance 10/6/2010	Posted By: MarvelousMoondance - (Send PM) Member Since: 10/7/2006 Location: Wild and Wonderful WV Total Posts: 11157 Experience: Date Posted: 10/6/2010 10:21 PM
A mycologist told me "10% of wild mushrooms are worth eating, 10% are edible but don't taste good, 10%will kill you, and all the rest will make you wish you were dead." Odd that a dear friend of mine (RIP) nicknamed, "Euell Gibbons, Jr " used to say the same thing! Someone else mentioned Morels, which are a rite of Spring for me. DON'T be lulled into a false complacency with those. There are "False Morels" out there, especially in Michigan. They are very similar in appearance but are bad fuggums. If you aren't 100% sure about any mushroom, DON'T eat 'em!


By: jimh2o 10/8/2010	Posted By: jimh2o - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/31/2009 Location: Baltimore,aka mobtown, MD Total Posts: 146 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2010 1:12 AM
Well written- and scary! [url]Click to follow link...[/url] I'll keep buying mine at the grocery store. But in the good ol'days....chasing rabbits and all that... J.B.

RE: Edible wild mushrooms?
By: thomesjackson6 10/15/2025	Posted By: thomesjackson6 - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/28/2025 Location: Total Posts: 1 Experience: Date Posted: 10/15/2025 5:07 AM
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