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Mushroom Quiz: Yummy or Nasty?

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Mushrooms (fungi), it seems, are neither animals nor plants, but something else again! As many of us know, the wide variety of mushrooms available can add greatly to the variety of our cuisine. But beware – some nasty fungi are lurking among the good ones! Do you know the tasty from the yucky? The healthful from the downright toxic? Take this quiz and find out ? Don’t forget to click on an emotion when you’re done!

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    Agaricus bisporus (common mushroom) is…

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Aleuria aurantia (orange peel fungus)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Lepiota castanea (chestnut dapperling)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Rubroboletus satanas (Satan’s bolete)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Auricularia auricula-judae (Jew’s ear, wood ear)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Entoloma rhodopolium (wood pinkgill)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Agaricus xanthodermus (yellow-stainer)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Agaricus augustus (the prince)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Coprinus comatus (shaggy ink cap)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Amanita caesarea (Caesar’s mushroom)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Boletus edulis (penny bun or cep)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Cantharellus (Chanterelle)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous
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    Amanita phalloides (death cap)

    • Edible
    • Poisonous

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  6. 9/13 was my result. Thought I’d do better as I used to hunt for mushrooms before. But this quiz had mushrooms I’ve never heard of or come across in the woods.

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    • I would rather think they are bad and not eat them than to think they are good and die. Never eat anything in nature that you aren’t 100% sure of. Did you ever see the movie Into the Wild? He made one of these so called bad mistakes.

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      • No I don’t think I did. But my memory is so bad that doesn’t at all mean I didn’t! I totally agree. Mushrooms are something I’m hyper-cautious about. I know lots of wild foods, but my knowledge just doesn’t extend into the fungal kingdom!

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        • Same here, the only mushrooms I will eat in the wild are Morals, and theyre look alike dangerous ones don’t really look alike to me. Best to err on the side of caution.

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          • ‘The movie is a true story about a 20 something guy that decided to live in the wilds of Alaska, and thinking he knew a plant but it had a look alike dangerous variety which killed him. Sad story.

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    • Here is it – two inches of clear white space:                                                                  
      Think what you might have won if you’d got 100% correct 😉

  19. 6/13. Amazed that so many are edible; they looked toxic to me. I did see a woman in Nepal with a bowlful of colourful fungi, and worried that some or all were dangerous. Every country has it’s own kinds, I think… here in Australia a few years ago, an Asian Chef and his mates died after they’d eaten a fungus that wasn’t what they thought it was.
    So. Educational. Thank you. ( I still wouldn’t touch them.)

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    • That seems to be the general danger: mistaken identity because of misleading resemblances. I went on a one-day course a few autumns ago, learning to identify the good and evil wild fungi in our woodlands, but I still wouldn’t trust myself 🙂