Amanita annulatovaginata
A wild ectomycorrhizal Amanita of the Congo rainforest, recorded as locally consumed in Tshopo province. Its preparation was not established, and the genus includes deadly species.
Mushrooms
Coprinellus disseminatus
Coprinellus disseminatus is a small saprotrophic inky-cap mushroom that grows in clusters on wood and debris. A Congolese food-use record and a Colombian catalogue entry both call it edible, but neither describes its preparation.
Identity
Coprinellus disseminatus is a small saprotrophic agaric. The Colombian catalogue lists the name as accepted, with no synonyms, and gives a broad distribution covering Europe, tropical Asia, the Americas, Australasia and China.
The supplied catalogue describes the species as a forest saprotroph, meaning that it lives on decaying plant material rather than on living tree roots, and records its supply as wild.
Food records
The Tshopo record from the DR Congo is an ethnomycological one: local people there were recorded eating the species in voucher-backed interviews. The catalogue gives no preparation, and it does not say which part is eaten, how it is cooked or whether it is sold.
The Colombian catalogue lists the species as reported edible, but it adds that it is not widely used. Those two records together show that the species appears in food contexts on two continents, but they do not show how widely it is eaten.
Safety
The catalogue states that the Tshopo entry is an ethnomycological food-use record, not an independent toxicological assessment. The Colombian entry gives no cautions. Neither record establishes that the mushroom is safe to eat, and no preparation in the sources makes it safe.
Identification should be confirmed by a regional expert from a voucher specimen before any use. The sources read here give no toxicity, interaction or preparation data for this species.
Places
Tshopo Province
Traditional use · Region evidenceThe catalogue records local consumption in voucher-backed interviews in Tshopo. The species-specific preparation was not established.
Colombia
Documented use · Country evidenceThe Colombian catalogue lists the species as reported edible although not widely used, and it does not say whether it is used in Colombia.
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Amanita robusta
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Armillaria heimii
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Calyptella longipes
Calyptella longipes is a wood and litter decaying fungus of the rainforests of Tshopo province, DR Congo, where some ethnic groups in voucher-backed interviews eat it. Its preparation was not recorded.
Cantharellus congolensis
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Cantharellus floridulus
Cantharellus floridulus is an ectomycorrhizal rainforest fungus that informants in Tshopo province, DR Congo, eat in voucher-backed interviews. Its preparation is not recorded, and the source gives no toxicity statement.
Cookeina speciosa
A forest cup fungus of the Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, recorded in local interviews as eaten. The species-level preparation is not established.
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Sources
PubMed Central (via supplied fungi catalogue)Food use
Wild edible ectomycorrhizal fungi: an underutilized food resource from the rainforests of Tshopo province (Democratic Republic of the Congo)Supplied catalogue record: Coprinellus disseminatus recorded as locally consumed in voucher-backed Tshopo interviews; preparation not established
Cited in: Identity; Food records; Safety
Catalogue of Fungi of Colombia (colfungi.org)Taxonomy · Distribution · Food use
Coprinellus disseminatus (Pers.) J.E. Lange, general informationAccepted name Coprinellus disseminatus (Pers.) J.E. Lange; species reported as edible, although not widely used
Distribution includes Europe, Asia-Tropical, South America, North America, Australasia and China
No cautions or toxicity information is given
Cited in: Identity; Food records