Revaluation of Mushroom Edibility Based on Differences in Morphological Characteristic

Abstract

Due to confusion, poisonous mushrooms are mistakenly consumed by mushroom hunters as edible mushrooms because they look morphologically similar. This review differentiates some edible and poisonous mushrooms, and differentiating keys are based on the cap structure, colour, texture, gills colour, attachment to the stem, stem colour, texture, spore colour and shapes, and volva. Listed edible mushroom species are Amanita caesarea, Agaricus campestris, Amanita rubescens, and Chlorophyllum rhacodes. Poisonous mushrooms are Amanita muscaria, Agaricus xanthoderma, Amanita phalloides, and Chlorophyllum molybdites, etc.