In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.

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    8 months ago

    Identifying mushroom has always been mysterious to me–how did they differentiate many of the mushroom? Especially I heard that there are so many different mushroom that looks identical

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      8 months ago

      I think the most common advice is, “if you live in an area where this edible mushroom and this impossible-to-tell-apart poisonous lookalike both grow, don’t pick either of them.”