Boletus loosii
Boletus loosii, the African bolete, is a miombo woodland bolete recorded in four central and southern African countries. The species page read here makes no food or toxicity statement.
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Mushrooms and fungiCultivated and wild mushrooms, truffles and other edible fungi, and lichens.
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Edible mushrooms319
Brittlegills24
Truffles19
Milkcaps17
Termite mushrooms17
Morels4
Stinkhorn fungi4
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Panus strigellus
Panus strigellus, the hairy wood fungus, is an Amazonian wood-growing mushroom recorded as a food in Brazil. No food-safety assessment for it is established in the sources read here.
Lactifluus brunnescens
Lactifluus brunnescens, the African milkcap, is a miombo woodland mushroom with abundant latex, recorded in six southern and central African countries. Its food use is not described in the species record read here.
Dark cep
Dark cep, Boletus aereus, is a prized wild bolete of Mediterranean and western European oak woodland, sold fresh or dried as a porcini-type mushroom.
Red coral mushroom
Red coral mushroom, Ramaria araiospora, is a wild coral fungus collected and sold in Guatemala. Coral fungi have toxic look-alikes, so identification needs a specialist.
Brazilian honeycomb polypore
Brazilian honeycomb polypore, Favolus brasiliensis, is a wood-growing fungus of tropical forests recorded as food in Brazil and Guyana. It has no standardized food-safety assessment.
Catathelasma laorentou
Catathelasma laorentou is an ectomycorrhizal mushroom from China, described in 2020 and listed as edible in a 2026 Chinese catalogue. No culinary tradition is established here.
Boletus bainiugan
Boletus bainiugan is a wild porcini-type bolete from Yunnan, China, traded fresh and dried. Its name is treated as a synonym in some sources.
Russula prolifica
Russula prolifica is an ectomycorrhizal brittlegill sold in Madagascar, where it grows under Eucalyptus plantations. It is a food-use record, not an identification guide.
Morchella eximia
Morchella eximia is a black morel recorded from Patagonia, China and other temperate regions. Raw or undercooked morels have caused an outbreak, so thorough cooking is the stated precaution.
Cantharellus vaginatus
A chanterelle species recorded from Yunnan, China, and Sikkim, India; its reported food use is provisional, and this page cannot identify a wild mushroom or assess its safety.
Neofavolus subpurpurascens
Neofavolus subpurpurascens is a Neotropical honeycomb polypore on wood, recorded in Brazil. Documented occurrence does not establish a food-safety assessment.
Lactifluus flammans
Lactifluus flammans is a milkcap of African miombo and open woodland, recorded in six countries. Its food use and safety are not established by the sources here.
African Caesar-group mushroom
The African Caesar-group mushroom, Amanita masasiensis, is a wild ectomycorrhizal species of central and southern African woodlands, eaten locally. The genus contains deadly poisonous species, so identification needs care.
White oyster mushroom
The white oyster mushroom, Pleurotus albidus, is a wood-rotting oyster of Amazonian and Atlantic Forest Brazil and parts of Mexico. Its food use is catalogued, and it has been proposed for commercial cultivation.
Dark violet Chinese porcini
Dark violet Chinese porcini, Boletus violaceofuscus, is a Chinese ectomycorrhizal bolete of the porcini section. The 2026 Chinese catalogue lists it as edible, but its culinary use is not documented.
Tuber panzhihuanense
Tuber panzhihuanense is a truffle described in 2012 from southwestern China. A 2026 Chinese species catalogue lists it as edible, but its culinary use, host association and safety are not established by the sources reviewed.
Indigo milkcap
Indigo milkcap, Lactarius indigo, is a blue-latexed milkcap of Mexican and Guatemalan forests. Market and ethnomycology records describe it as roasted or dried for food, and a similar-looking species is a known confusion risk.
Lenga beefsteak fungus
Lenga beefsteak fungus, Fistulina pumiliae, is a bracket fungus that grows on lenga wood in Patagonia. The catalogue records regional consumption, but other sources document edible use for related species, not for this one.
Favolus tenuiculus
Favolus tenuiculus is a wild forest polypore recorded as locally eaten in Tshopo province, DR Congo. The record is an interview-based food-use note, and the preparation and toxicity of the species are not established.
Lactifluus gymnocarpoides
Lactifluus gymnocarpoides is an African milkcap of open Uapaca and miombo woodland. Regional inventories record it as food, but its bitter taste means local cooks remove it before eating, and the sources give no preparation.
Orange birch bolete
Orange birch bolete, Leccinum versipelle, is a bolete that grows with birch in Northern Europe. Sources treat it as edible only after thorough cooking, because raw or undercooked specimens can cause nausea and vomiting.
Reddish wood ear
Reddish wood ear, Auricularia fuscosuccinea, is a gelatinous fungus that grows on wood in tropical forests. Records from Amazonian and other Neotropical communities describe it as food, but documented use is not a food-safety assessment.
Lactifluus medusae
Lactifluus medusae is an African milkcap, a white-latexed ectomycorrhizal mushroom of miombo and wooded savanna. The EFTA edible-species inventory records it as a popular edible species of the Zambezian region.
Darkening brittlegill
Darkening brittlegill, Russula vinosa, is a wine-red mycorrhizal mushroom of Northern European woods. Nordic field guides describe it as mild-tasting and edible, and warn that red Russulas are hard to tell apart.
The flirt
Russula vesca, the bare-toothed brittlegill, a mild, nutty wild mushroom of European beech and conifer woodland. Field sources call it edible and cook it with onions and garlic, but regional identification must be confirmed.
Lactarius chromospermus
Lactarius chromospermus, a milkcap of African miombo woodland, listed as edible in one regional inventory but described as not edible in other sources. Its food status is contested.
Basket fungus
Ileodictyon cibarium, a New Zealand stinkhorn fungus with a lattice basket. Historical Māori accounts record its unexpanded egg stage as food. Modern edibility has not been verified.
Pleurotus magnificus
Pleurotus magnificus, a wood-decaying oyster mushroom of the Araucaria forests of southern Brazil, recorded as locally eaten and listed as Endangered. Cultivation has not been confirmed.
Yellow-fleshed beefsteak fungus
Fistulina endoxantha, a wood-decay bracket fungus of the Nothofagus forests of Patagonia, gathered as food by Mapuche-Tehuelche people. Its taxonomy and nutrition are still being worked out.
Russula pseudovirescens
A green-capped brittlegill recorded from China as edible or edible-and-medicinal in a 2026 national species catalogue. Its culinary use, identity and safety are not yet established.
Agaricus sylvicola
Agaricus sylvicola, the wood mushroom, is a forest-litter mushroom of Europe with an anise or almond smell, eaten in Europe but separated from the toxic yellow stainer, Agaricus xanthodermus, by smell and staining.
Pale chicken of the woods
Pale chicken of the woods, Laetiporus cincinnatus, is a bracket fungus of eastern North American oak woods whose young fruiting bodies are eaten cooked, with a known risk of digestive upset.
Eastern American matsutake
Eastern American matsutake, Tricholoma magnivelare, is an aromatic wild mushroom of eastern North American forests, a different taxon from the western matsutake sold in the Japanese trade.
Rufous milkcap
The rufous milkcap, Lactarius rufus, is a tree-associated milkcap of northern and eastern Europe whose acrid latex makes it a conditional food, traditionally processed and not eaten raw.
Larch bolete
The larch bolete, Suillus grevillei, is a mycorrhizal bolete of larch woods in Europe and introduced larch plantings, eaten cooked after its slimy skin and pores are removed.
Pulutukwe
Pulutukwe is the Patamona name for Amanita perphaea, a wild Amanita of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana that the Patamona people value as food. Its identity is not established for other Amanitas.
Dongsun
Dongsun, the Chinese name for Phallus dongsun, a stinkhorn described as a new species in 2020 and grown commercially in China as a food and medicinal mushroom.
Lactifluus densifolius
African milkcap, a wild ectomycorrhizal milkcap of woodland in central, eastern and southern Africa, recorded as an edible wild mushroom in regional inventories and food studies.
Pekepeke-kiore
Hericium novae-zealandiae is a native New Zealand coral tooth fungus that grows on dead wood and was traditionally gathered by Māori, with little written record of its food use.
White chanterelle
Cantharellus subalbidus is a pale wild chanterelle of western North American conifer forests, sautéed or baked as a choice edible and easily confused with other chanterelles.
Périgord black truffle
Tuber melanosporum is the Périgord black truffle, a mycorrhizal fungus of southern Europe grown in inoculated oak and hazel orchards and used as a high-value aromatic seasoning.
Oregon winter white truffle
Tuber oregonense is a wild truffle of Douglas-fir forests in the Pacific Northwest, valued for its aroma and shaved raw over warm fatty food.
American blusher
Amanita novinupta is a western North American blusher, a forest mushroom recorded as food in Mexico, and one that must be cooked because its raw flesh is toxic.
Wrinkled-cap scaber stalk
Leccinellum rugosiceps is a bolete of oak woodland across the Americas and parts of Asia, recorded as an edible wild mushroom whose quality reviewers rate variously and whose identification needs care.
Saffron milkcap
The saffron milkcap, Lactarius deliciosus, is a pine-associated wild mushroom native to Europe, fried, grilled, salted or pickled in several regional kitchens.
Lactifluus gymnocarpus
Lactifluus gymnocarpus is an African milkcap, a wild woodland mushroom of the Lactifluus group, recorded as an edible species in West and Central Africa.
Afrocastellanoa ivoryana
Afrocastellanoa ivoryana is a truffle-like false truffle of African woodlands, ectomycorrhizal with woodland trees and recorded as a regional wild food in West and Central Africa.
Wine cap
Wine cap is a large agaric mushroom of the genus Stropharia, grown on wood chips and straw and eaten cooked. Its cultivated form is the main supply.
Russula cellulata
Russula cellulata is an ectomycorrhizal African brittlegill of dry forest, gallery forest and miombo. EFTA lists it in its edible-species inventory, but the entry gives no direct edibility statement and warns of confusion with R. liberiensis.