Mushroom Identification

How To Develop Mushroom Identification Skills

Learning how to identify mushrooms involves developing your pattern recognition skills.

There are two kinds of mushrooms that you can start with when learning fungal identification skills:

1. Polypore mushrooms that grow on decaying wood

2. Mycorrhizal mushrooms that grow on the forest floor connected to the root systems of plants and trees.

Discover how to identify which mushrooms are edible and medicinal, as well as the traditional stories of herbalism traditions and scientific research into their medicinal properties.