Termitomyces albiceps
A wild termite mushroom recorded as food in Yunnan, China, and across South and Southeast Asia, eaten in soups and fried dishes and sometimes preserved in oil. Its species name still needs molecular checking.
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Hairy sawgill
A wood-rotting bracket fungus of Brazil and Guyana that Indigenous Amazonian communities eat as a staple. Its edibility is contested in some field guides, and no standardised food-safety assessment exists.
Cotylidia aurantiaca
A forest wood-decay fungus of the Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, recorded in local interviews as eaten. The name is a research label and no preparation is established.
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.
Tricholoma fulvocastaneum
A forest mushroom of Yunnan in China, sold in regional markets as a relative of matsutake. It grows with Fagaceae trees, has a lower market value than matsutake, and its edibility needs species-level review.
Amanita rubroflava
A wild Amanita recorded from China in a 2026 checklist of edible and medicinal fungi. The genus holds deadly species, so this page gives no identification or edibility verdict.
Dog-revealed truffle
The dog-revealed truffle, Tuber canirevelatum, is a North American truffle found in a truffle orchard by a trained dog. Its aroma resembles that of European truffles, but its edibility and its range are not yet settled by the sources read.
Diminutive morel
Morchella diminutiva is a yellow true morel described in 2012 from eastern North America. Sources report it as a culinary morel that must be cooked; this page is not an identification guide.
Lepista rhodotoides
Lepista rhodotoides is a forest saprotrophic agaric recorded as locally eaten in interview-based surveys in Tshopo province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Weeping bolete
Suillus granulatus, the weeping bolete, is a pine-associated bolete of Europe and of pine regions where it was introduced, recorded as cooked or preserved.
Cryptic yellow morel
Morchella cryptica, the cryptic yellow morel, is a true morel of North America's Great Lakes region that cannot be told apart from Morchella americana by appearance alone.
Slippery jack
Suillus luteus, the slippery jack, is a pine-associated bolete recorded as cooked, dried or pickled in Europe and in pine plantations on several continents.
Russula pruinata
Russula pruinata is an ectomycorrhizal brittlegill of Congolese rainforest recorded as locally eaten in interview-based surveys in Tshopo province.
Cordyceps militaris
Cordyceps militaris is an insect-pathogenic fungus that is cultivated in China on controlled substrates for food and supplements.
Lactarius kabansus
Lactarius kabansus, the African milkcap, is an ectomycorrhizal mushroom of miombo woodland that has long been recorded as food in central and southern Africa.
Rick's oyster mushroom
Pleurotus rickii, Rick's oyster mushroom, is a rare wood-decaying oyster fungus of the southern Atlantic Forest and Yungas, listed as Near Threatened.
Cortinarius xiphidipus
Cortinarius xiphidipus, the Patagonian webcap, is a mycorrhizal mushroom of Nothofagus forests in Patagonia with a published regional consumption record.
Snyder's morel
Morchella snyderi, Snyder's morel, is a true morel found under conifers in western North America in spring. It is eaten only well cooked, because raw or undercooked morels can cause serious illness.
Lobster mushroom
The lobster mushroom, Hypomyces lactifluorum, is a parasitic fungus that turns a white milk-cap or brittlegill orange-red and is gathered as a wild food in North America. Its host species must be identified too.
King oyster
Pleurotus eryngii, the king oyster, is a fungus native to the Mediterranean region and now grown widely on sawdust and straw. Its firm stems and caps are cooked, and the species is one of the most farmed mushrooms worldwide.
Scaly wood mushroom
Agaricus langei, the scaly wood mushroom, is a brown-scaled woodland agaric. Its name is not settled across sources, and it is recorded as a cooked wild mushroom in Europe.
Southern beefsteak fungus
Fistulina antarctica is a bracket fungus of Nothofagus forests in Patagonia. Local people have long eaten it. The regional food record is not a full toxicity evaluation, so its species concept needs local checking.
Pinkmottle woodwax
Hygrophorus russula, the pinkmottle woodwax, is a firm mycorrhizal mushroom of broadleaf woods in southern Europe and Guatemala. It is used cooked or preserved, and field guides differ on its quality.
Sordid blewit
Collybia sordida, formerly Lepista sordida, is a leaf-litter and grassland mushroom. Foraging guides list it as edible. The catalogue's Brazilian record does not establish a food-safety assessment.
Fairy-ring champignon
Marasmius oreades is a small grassland mushroom that forms fairy rings. It is used for cooking and drying in Europe and Mexico. Toxic grassland lookalikes occur, so growth in rings is not an edibility test.
Quiet milkcap
Lactarius quieticolor is a milkcap of pine plantations and pine woods in Europe, recorded as food in Brazil. The name quiet milkcap is a catalogue label, and documented use does not amount to a safety assessment.
Kalahari truffle
Kalaharituber pfeilii is an underground truffle of the Kalahari and adjacent drylands. San and Khoisan people have gathered and eaten it, and it is sold in Namibian markets.
Wrinkled-cap Chinese porcini
Boletus reticuloceps is a porcini-group bolete first described from Yunnan, China. A Chinese species catalogue lists it as edible, but the sources reviewed here give no culinary tradition or safety study for it.
Blushing false truffle
Blushing false truffle, Rhizopogon roseolus, is a pine-associated false truffle. It is recorded as a food in Europe and in Japan, where it is called shoro. Its food use depends on maturity, and its name needs checking.
Lactifluus longipes
Lactifluus longipes is an African milkcap mushroom recorded in Cameroon, the DR Congo, Gabon and Togo. It is listed in an institutional inventory of edible species. Its identity, preparation and current safety are not settled by the sources.
Northern yellow morel
Morchella prava is a yellow morel described in 2012 from North America. It is catalogued as a culinary morel, and morels must be cooked before eating.
Russula viridicinnamomea
Russula viridicinnamomea is a brittlegill mushroom known by the regional name regional brittlegill in Yunnan, China. One forest survey lists it as edible. This page records that single food-use record and its limits.
King tuber mushroom
Pleurotus tuber-regium is a tropical fungus whose underground sclerotium is a staple and soup thickener in south-eastern Nigeria. It is also recorded as a food in Tshopo province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pallid bolete
The pallid bolete, Imleria pallida, is a pale-capped wild bolete of oak woods in eastern North America. It is listed as edible, but its identity and its name are not settled.
Marasmius confertus
Marasmius confertus is a saprotrophic agaric recorded as a food mushroom in the Tshopo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Preparation and identity are not established in the sources.
Sulfur shelf
Laetiporus sulphureus, sulfur shelf or chicken of the woods, is a yellow-pored bracket fungus of hardwoods in Europe and North America that is eaten young and cooked, with reported adverse reactions.
Russula congoana
Russula congoana is an ectomycorrhizal brittlegill of miombo and savanna woodland in tropical Africa, recorded in an edible-fungi inventory. Preparation, identity and current safety still need validation.
Agaricus urinascens
Agaricus urinascens is a large European grassland mushroom recorded as a food species. The catalogue flags its historical species boundaries and cadmium accumulation for review.
Large tropical Caesar mushroom
Amanita princeps, the head man slender Caesar, is a mycorrhizal fungus of tropical China and Southeast Asia that is eaten and sold locally, but the sources read advise against eating it and confuse it with the deadly death cap.
Termitomyces mammiformis
Termitomyces mammiformis is a termite mushroom with a small cap, eaten in several African countries and listed as edible in the EFTA list. Its identity and safety need separate checking; regional records do not settle them.
Favolus pseudoprinceps
Favolus pseudoprinceps is a wood-decay polypore from the Neotropics, with a Brazilian food-use record. The sources do not establish a standard food-safety assessment for it.
Mattirolomyces austroafricanus
A rarely reported subterranean fungus from South Africa’s Northern Cape. It is grouped with Kalahari truffles in some literature, but occurrence in the Kalahari Desert proper and food use are unconfirmed.
Cantharellus congolensis
Cantharellus congolensis is an ectomycorrhizal chanterelle of sub-Saharan Africa, eaten in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under local names. Its edibility rests on food-use surveys, not on toxicity tests.
Northern milkcap
Lactarius trivialis, the northern milkcap, is a Russulaceae mushroom of Scandinavia and northern Europe, traditionally processed by salting and treated in Nordic guides as edible only after a parboiling step.
Asian black truffle relative
Tuber pseudohimalayense is a wild black truffle from Yunnan, China, listed as edible in a Chinese species catalogue. No independent assessment of its culinary use or safety is available.
Yellow morel
Yellow morel, Morchella esculenta, is a wild fungus gathered for cooking in Europe and recorded in historical reports elsewhere. Morels are cooked before they are eaten; raw morels have been linked to serious illness.
Ringed tropical sawgill
Lentinus sajor-caju, the ringed tropical sawgill, is a wood-decaying fungus with a ring on its stem. A 2026 Chinese species catalogue lists it as edible, but the culinary tradition is not established.
Yellow knight
Tricholoma equestre, the yellow knight, is a yellow ectomycorrhizal fungus of pine woods whose long market history in Europe is overshadowed by serious rhabdomyolysis poisonings, so the sources read do not support eating it.
Termitomyces reticulatus
Termitomyces reticulatus is a termite mushroom that grows with Odontotermes termites in African woodland. The European Food Safety Authority list records it as edible, but its identity and preparation need checking.
Cantharellus isabellinus
Cantharellus isabellinus, the African chanterelle, is a rainforest mycorrhizal fungus of tropical Africa that the catalogue lists in an edible-species inventory, with some regional records still needing confirmation.