Agaricus crocopeplus
A forest mushroom of the genus Agaricus, recorded as a wild food in the Tshopo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a voucher-backed ethnomycological survey.
Mushrooms
Cantharellus rufopunctatus
Cantharellus rufopunctatus is a rainforest chanterelle-group fungus that the catalogue records as eaten locally in Tshopo province, DR Congo, where no species-specific preparation has been established.
What it is
Cantharellus rufopunctatus is a fungus of the genus Cantharellus, the group of chanterelles. The catalogue records it as an ectomycorrhizal rainforest fungus, meaning that it grows in partnership with the roots of trees rather than on dead wood. It is recorded from the rainforests of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The catalogue gives no common name for it and no alias beyond the scientific name. The species is known to the record only as a research name, and its current taxonomic standing has not been validated in this recovery.
Food use in Tshopo
The catalogue records the species as locally consumed, based on interviews in Tshopo that were supported by herbarium vouchers. The record says that a species-specific preparation was not established, so no method of cooking, drying or storage can be attributed to this fungus from the sources read.
A summary of the wider study of edible wild fungi from Tshopo and the neighbouring Yangambi and Yoko forest reserves notes that the forests hold more edible ectomycorrhizal fungi than local people actually collect. Low uptake is linked to the distances people must travel to gather them. The catalogue's record places the species in that food context but does not generalise it to other Cantharellus species or other regions.
Safety and identification
The catalogue's entry is an ethnomycological food-use record. It is not an independent toxicological assessment, and it is not a verdict that the fungus is safe to eat.
This record is not a guide to identifying wild fungi. Identify any specimen with an expert before eating it, and do not treat local use in one district as evidence for the species elsewhere.
Places
Tshopo province
Documented use · Region evidenceRegion-level record from voucher-backed interviews in Tshopo. The record does not give a village or market.
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Sources
PubMed CentralFood · Identity
Wild edible ectomycorrhizal fungi: an underutilized food resource from the rainforests of Tshopo province (Democratic Republic of the Congo)Catalogue record: locally consumed in voucher-backed Tshopo interviews; ectomycorrhizal rainforest fungus; supply wild (full text was not readable in this recovery, the page returned a browser check)
Search-result summary of the same study: rainforests provide more edible ectomycorrhizal fungi than local people use, and low uptake is linked to the distance people must travel to collect them
Cited in: What it is; Food use in Tshopo; Safety and identification