Important: Safety Warning
This page offers rules for telling edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. No such rules are reliable, and these identifications predate modern mycology. Deadly species closely resemble edible ones, and mistakes are regularly fatal. Never eat a wild mushroom on the strength of this text.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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Mushrooms
Mushrooms are very rare in this country. It is very important to be able to distinguish those which are wholesome from the poisonous. The gills of the mushroom are of a pinky red, changing to liver color; the flesh is white, the stem white, solid and cylindrical. In order to test mushrooms, sprinkle salt on the gills, if they turn yellow they are poisonous; if they turn black they are good.