Steps/Methods
1 Look at the growing area. Edible non-toxic mushrooms grow in clean grass or pine and oak trees, while poisonous mushrooms tend to grow in dark, damp and dirty areas.
2 Look at the color. Poisonous mushrooms are brightly colored, red, green, black, purple and other colors, especially the purple ones are often highly poisonous and easy to change color after picking.
3Three look at the shape. Non-toxic fungus cover is flat, smooth umbrella, no wheel on the fungus surface, the lower part of no fungus, the poisonous fungus cover is convex in the center, strange shape, the fungus surface is thick and hard, the fungus on the rod has fungus wheel, fungus butt rod is long or thick, easy to break.
4 Four look at the secretion. The fresh wild mushrooms will be picked and torn off the strains, the secretion of non-toxic is as bright as water (individually white), and the surface of the mushroom is not discolored when torn off; the secretion of poisonous is thick and thick, reddish-brown in color, and easy to be discolored in the air after being torn off.
5Five smell. Non-toxic mushrooms have special flavor, and toxic mushrooms have strange flavor, such as pungent, sour and fishy flavor.
6 Sixth, test. When picking wild mushrooms, you can rub the onion on the mushroom cap, if the onion becomes greenish brown, it proves poisonous, on the contrary, if it doesn't change color, it is non-toxic.
7Seven is cooking test. When cooking wild mushrooms, put a few cordgrass, some garlic or rice with cooking, mushrooms cooked, the cordgrass becomes green or purple green is toxic, yellow is not toxic; garlic or rice discoloration is poisonous, no discoloration still keep the color is not toxic.
8 eight is chemical identification. Take the collection or buy back the suspected mushrooms, the juice out, wet with paper, immediately add a drop of dilute hydrochloric acid or white vinegar on it, if the paper becomes red or blue is poisonous.
China's top ten poisonous mushrooms and their main places of origin
The brown scaly umbrella: (pink) Beijing, Jiangsu, Gansu, Qinghai and other places.
White poisonous umbrella: common name: white hat, white Luo umbrella. (pure white) Liaoning, Hebei, Jilin, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Henan, Sichuan and so on.
Scale handle white poisonous umbrella: common name: poisonous goose cream (white) Sichuan, Hebei, etc..
Toxic umbrella: common name: ghost pen, green hat (dark green) Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc..
Poisonous Umbrella: (brown with white spots) Guangxi.
Toxic Powdery Fold Fungus: Common name: Red Fold Mushroom (milky white) Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Anhui and so on.
Autumn Helicoverpa: Common name: Autumn Scale Ear (yellow) Sichuan.
Bag-legged black pleated umbrella: common name: bag-legged black (black-brown) Qinghai, Hebei, etc..
Flesh brown scale umbrella: (flesh color) Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu.
Deerflower Mushroom: (red at the beginning, black after aging) Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Yunnan, Guizhou and so on.