Top 20 Edible Mushrooms Popular in Carbonia

1. Caesar's mushroom

Caesar's mushroom (Amanita caesarea) is a brightly colored Amanita associated with ancient Roman nobility. Sporting a vivid orange cap and a yellow stalk and gills, this mushroom is an exciting find - however, because faded or young individuals may resemble the highly deadly Death Cap, it is recommended that this species be treated with a "look but do not touch" policy.

2. Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum

Easily overlooked due to its somewhat dull appearance and the colours that blend well into the environment, callistosporium luteo-olivaceum is a small mushroom typically found in forests. Its honey-brown cap can sometimes have olive-green or olive-yellow hues.

3. Slippery jack

This mushroom blooms in summer and autumn, usually near or beneath pine trees. It does well in cold climates, but can also be found further south all around the northern hemisphere. During moist weather, the slippery jack's caps become quite slimy, leading to their common name.

4. Milk-white brittlegill

Fruitbodies of the large milk-white brittlegill (Russula delica) arise from the forest floor already quite formed, a fact which results in dirty and pockmarked caps. “Delica” means “without milk,” and this mushroom can be most readily distinguished from the lookalike Fleecy Milkcap by its lack of milky latex exudate.

5. Powdery brittlegill

As hinted by its name, powdery brittlegill has a distinctive powdery coating on its cap. Powdery brittlegill is mycorrhizal, meaning it forms underground connections with plants. This mushroom specifically prefers oaks but can also be found around other trees.

6. Cedarwood waxcap

7. Summer puffball

The fruit body is 1.5–3.0 cm broad and varies in shape from spherical to pulvinate (cushion-shaped). It is attached to the substrate by dense masses of hyphae. At first, the exoperidium is white; originally covered in dense filaments, it breaks up into buff, fine warts. With age, a brown, thin endoperidium becomes exposed underneath. The spores are released through a ragged pore at the top of the puffball. The gleba is soft, changing from white, to olive and eventually medium-brown. The spherical| spores are 3.5–4.5 µm in diameter and moderately thick-walled with smooth warts. In the center lies an oil droplet and a stub-like pedicel. In addition, there is a capillitium from the central part of the gleba with numerous minute pits.

8. Oak bolete

As you can probably guess from its name, Oak bolete is most commonly found beneath oak trees. Both the stem and cap of oak bolete turn a vivid blue color when damaged. The specific name pendiculatus means with a small appendage.

9. Lanmaoa fragrans

10. Blusher

The blusher mushroom is so named because it “blushes” to a pinkish red color when cut or bruised. It is found in many countries around the world, although it may not be native to the southern hemisphere. It contains a hemolytic toxin that can cause anemia if eaten.

11. Slate bolete

Slate bolete is a mushroom rich in vitamins such as potassium and magnesium. It is known as a useful mushroom for extracting elements from the soil. This symbiotic fungus is not cultivated and can most commonly be found under poplar trees, where it usually grows in groups.

12. Porcelain mushroom

Porcelain mushroom can be found on a variety of deadwood including logs, dead standing trees, and dead upper branches. However, this mushroom is pickier about the type of deadwood, as it only grows on beech trees. This mushroom prefers to keep these trees to itself, releasing fungicides that can kill other mushrooms.

13. Pale bolete

14. Trooping funnel

The trooping funnel grows an unusually tall mushroom, often in groups or circles known as “fairy rings” that can be several meters across. The mushrooms can survive a frost and so often remain standing through early winter. Handle with care as they have a poisonous lookalike: the Livid Pinkgill.

15. Deceiving bolete

The cap is hemispherical, latter flattening out, appearing olive to reddish-brown, rarely also dark red. The flesh is yellow, turning blue when cut. The pores are yellow with olive spores. The stipe is smooth and golden yellow. The flesh has a slightly acrid taste.

16. Purple-spored puffball

It's hard to mistake this mushroom for another. The aptly-named purple-spored puffball has a large, round, or pear-shaped fruiting body and is purple or chocolate-brown in color (with spores to match). Purple-spored puffballs are found in prairies and meadows across North America and Australia.

17. Sepia bolete

18. Oyster mushroom

Oyster mushrooms grow wild but are also cultivated for sale in supermarkets. They can even be cultivated at home. They will grow on coffee grounds and spent grain, and are occasionally even fashioned into an environmentally-friendly substitute for styrofoam. There are several toxic look-alike species, so it is best to buy these mushrooms at the store.

19. Bronze bolete

The bronze bolete is originally described from Europe. For many years, the species is thought to be present in North America as well, until molecular studies have shown that the North American counterpart, named Boletus regineus, was actually a different species. The bronze bolete is often found during hot and dry summer days. The specific Latin epithet "aereus" means "fitted with bronze" and it refers to the color of its velvety cap.

20. Caesar's mushroom