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.
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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.
Nacuma
Crepidotus palmarum is a wood-dwelling fungus documented as food in Pauna, Boyacá, where local names include nacuma and orejas blancas; cultivation has also been studied.
Amanita bweyeyensis
Amanita bweyeyensis is a Eucalyptus-associated Amanita in East and Central Africa, in section Phalloideae with the deadly A. phalloides. Sources call for extreme caution, and it is not recommended as food.
Hygrocybe cantharellus
Hygrocybe cantharellus is a small orange waxy-cap agaric with a catalogued food record from Tshopo province, DR Congo, and a taxonomy that the sources read do not settle for that region.
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.
Russula meleagris
Russula meleagris is an ectomycorrhizal rainforest fungus recorded as locally eaten in Tshopo province, DR Congo, where some groups reject Russula as inedible. No species-level safety assessment exists.
Velvety wood fungus
Panus velutinus, the velvety wood fungus, is a wood-rotting fungus recorded in Brazil, where a 2024 review of wild edible mushrooms lists it. Its food use is documented; no standardized safety assessment exists.
Golden ear
Naematelia aurantialba, golden ear, is a yellow gelatinous fungus that parasitises Stereum fruit bodies on broadleaf trees and is recorded as a wild edible relative of cultivated golden ear in southwestern China.
Amanita afrospinosa
Amanita afrospinosa is a white, warted Amanita of miombo woodland in southern and central Africa. A regional food-use record exists, but the Amanita genus includes deadly species, so no safe use is established here.
Termitomyces heimii
Termitomyces heimii is a wild termite mushroom that grows with fungus-growing termites in Yunnan, Laos and across South and Southeast Asia. It is sold in local markets and cooked in soups and fried dishes.
Velvet bolete
Suillus variegatus, the velvet bolete, is a wild bolete of pine woods in northern Europe that is eaten cooked or dried. Its cap and tubes are usually peeled and removed before cooking.
Russula porphyrocephala
Russula porphyrocephala is an ectomycorrhizal rainforest mushroom recorded as eaten by people in Tshopo, DR Congo. The record is an ethnomycological food-use record, not a toxicological assessment.
Pecan-associated truffle
Tuber floridanum is a truffle that grows with pecan trees in orchards of the southeastern United States and has a recorded food use in Brazil. Sources describe its odour as unappealing, and the evidence for eating it is limited.
Mycoclelandia bulundari
Mycoclelandia bulundari is a hypogeous desert fungus of northern and western Australia, recorded as a cooked food of Aboriginal people. Its identification and modern food safety are not established.
Water-bamboo smut
Water-bamboo smut is the swollen gall that the fungus Ustilago esculenta forms on the aquatic grass Zizania latifolia. It is eaten as a vegetable in China and elsewhere in East and Southeast Asia.
Macrocybe gigantea
Macrocybe gigantea is a large wild mushroom of tropical and subtropical Asia that is sold in markets in Laos and Yunnan, China. Its local identification and safety still need species-level review.
Ballou's bolete
Tylopilus balloui, the burnt orange bolete, is a tropical bolete recorded as food in Guyana. Sources disagree on whether it is worth eating, and its species concept needs checking.
Oregon brown truffle
Kalapuya brunnea, the Oregon brown truffle, is a native truffle of the Pacific Northwest that is shaved raw over warm food. Sources describe it as a gourmet edible, and its safe identification needs an expert.
Lentinula raphanica
Lentinula raphanica is a wild wood-rotting mushroom of the Neotropics, a close relative of the cultivated shiitake, recorded as food by Amazonian communities and still poorly studied.
Lactarius acutus
Lactarius acutus is a wild ectomycorrhizal milkcap of the Tshopo rainforests in the DR Congo, recorded as locally eaten in voucher-backed interviews; its preparation is not recorded.
Hairy milkcap relative
Lactifluus pilosus is a wild ectomycorrhizal milkcap recorded in Yunnan; the catalogue lists it as sold in Pu'er markets, but its species-level food use and safety are not yet confirmed.
Mongolian mushroom
The Mongolian mushroom, Leucocalocybe mongolica, is a wild steppe fungus of the Mongolian Plateau, prized as food in Northeast Asia and listed as threatened by drought and over-collection.
Winter truffle
The winter truffle, Tuber brumale, is a dark, aromatic truffle of southern Europe, also called the Muscat truffle. It is sold as a cheaper relative of the Périgord truffle and is kept separate from Tuber melanosporum in records.
Tuber huidongense
Tuber huidongense is a subterranean truffle of pine forests in south-western China, known from Sichuan and Yunnan. A recent Chinese catalogue lists it as edible, but no culinary tradition for it has been documented.
Morchella sextelata
Morchella sextelata is a cultivated black morel of the Elata clade, grown in managed beds and greenhouses in China. Raw or undercooked morels are associated with illness, and cooking is the main control.
Meadow waxcap
The meadow waxcap, Cuphophyllus pratensis, is a salmon-to-orange gilled mushroom of old grassland in Europe. Its fruit bodies are edible and gathered for sale in some countries, but its habitat is declining.
Gymnopilus zenkeri
Gymnopilus zenkeri is a forest mushroom recorded as eaten locally in Tshopo province, DR Congo. The genus is described as unsafe to eat, and no preparation or safety assessment for this species has been established.
Burn-site morel
The burn-site morel, Morchella exuberans, is a wild morel that fruits in conifer forest in the year after a fire in western North America. It is eaten only after thorough cooking, because raw morels can cause serious poisoning.
American yellow morel
The American yellow morel, Morchella americana, is a wild spring morel of North America that is eaten only after thorough cooking, because raw or undercooked morels have caused serious illness.
Lentinus berteroi
Lentinus berteroi is a sawgill mushroom of the tropical Americas, recorded as food in the Colombian catalogue and studied for cultivation in Brazil; a Brazilian food record for this species was not confirmed.
Tropical black bolete
Phlebopus portentosus, the tropical black bolete, is a wild bolete prized in Yunnan and northern Thailand. It is one of the few boletes that has been fruited in culture on grain.