Foragers Standards

Mushrooms are considered to be an extremely important part of the fungi kingdom. Moreover, it has numerous advantages when comes to strengthening the immune system. Above everything else, mushrooms can be grown easily at home and they are easy to store. However, when the wild mushrooms, which are hazardous for health are utilized, it can have extremely harmful outcome. The utilization of harmful mushrooms can even result in the death of the human beings. Therefore, it is extremely important to use the right kinds of mushrooms.
The difference between edible and the wild mushroom cannot be found easily. This requires a lot of practice as well as dedication to master this art. However, some foragers which have contributed their life in this process have developed many ways to distinguish between these two types of mushrooms. In order to fulfill the purpose, they have developed certain basic standards against which the mushrooms are measured before they are used. This chapter intends to focus on these standards, employed to distinguish among the mushrooms.
These standards turn out to be vague and useless in many cases. As this is a serious matter of life and death; therefore, no risk can be taken in this regard. Therefore, only those standards must be observed and fulfilled, which are accepted by majority of the people. Moreover, these standards have proved themselves that they can help foragers while discriminating the mushrooms. Therefore, this chapter is focused mainly upon those methods and approaches which can be used to accurately differentiate between edible and wild mushrooms:
Following are some of the methods used to differentiate between mushrooms, while hunting for them in the