Agaricus xanthodermus · Agaricaceae
A field-mushroom lookalike that turns bright chrome yellow when cut and makes most people ill.
Poisonous. Causes severe cramps, sweating and vomiting in most people. Cut the base of every Agaricus you pick: instant chrome yellow plus an inky smell means discard the lot.
Read the full foraging safety guidance.
June to November
Field, Horse and Wood Mushrooms. Horse Mushroom yellows slowly and smells of aniseed.
Do not eat.
Hypholoma fasciculare
Dense sulphur-yellow clusters on stumps all year. Very common, very bitter, and toxic.
Clitocybe rivulosa
A small pale funnel-shaped grassland mushroom; an important poisonous lookalike of edible spring species.
Amanita muscaria
The classic red and white toadstool. Hallucinogenic and poisonous. Admire it, do not eat it.
