Species list

edible forest garden mix

20 species ectomycorrhizae

Amanita fulva, Tawny Grisette – A beautiful mushroom and a good edible (must be cooked): commonly occurs with beech, oak, sweet chestnut, birch and pine.

Amanita rubescens, The Blusher – A very common mushroom, and an excellent edible (though it must be cooked), happy with a wide range of deciduous and coniferous trees.

Amanita vaginata, Grisette – as for Tawny Grisette, above.

Boletus badius, Bay Bolete – An excellent relative of the penny bun, usually free of maggots.

Boletus edulis, Penny bun, – Also known as the Cep or Porcini, this is perhaps the best eating of all the wild fungi. Occurs with a very wide range of trees both deciduous and coniferous.

Cantharellus cibarius, Chanterelle – Needs no introduction, one of the very best edible mushrooms and found principally with oak, beech and pine.

Cantharellus tubaeformis, Winter or Trumpet Chanterelle – A very good edible, excellent for drying, fruits in the autumn and early winter, surviving early frosts. At least partially saprotrophic – helps decompose dead wood and stumps. Happy with many trees both deciduous and coniferous.

Cortinarius caperatus, The Gypsy – A large and delicious edible mushroom, common in the Scottish highlands and Scandinavia, associating with many trees.

Craterellus cornucopiodes, Horn of Plenty

Hydnum repandum, Hedgehog Mushroom – one of the best edible mushrooms, grows with a wide range of deciduous and coniferous trees. Hydnum rufescens, Hedgehog Mushroom – as above, but with a distinctive reddish colour to the cap. Excellent eating.

Lactarius deterrimus, False Saffron Milk-cap – grows with spruce, pine, and bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), a decent edible like the better known Saffron Milk-cap.

Lactarius quietus, Oak Milk-cap

Laccaria amethystina, Amethyst Deceiver – A very common and gregarious mushroom, happy with almost any tree, and decent to eat.

Laccaria laccata, The Deceiver – As above, but purely flesh/buff coloured.

Leccinum scabrum, Brown Birch Bolete – A common mycorrhizal mushroom associated with birches. Good dried.

Leccinum versipelle, Orange Birch Bolete – Another excellent edible mushroom which associates with birches.

Russula atropurpurea, Blackish Purple Russula – a common species associating especially with oak and pine.

Russula ochroleuca, Common Yellow Russula – happy with a wide range of trees, a good firm-fleshed mushroom.

Suillus bovinus, Bovine bolete – a much studied mycorrhiza found in association with pines. Best dried.

Tuber aestivum, Summer Truffle

(Also includes a mixture of native endomycorrhizal species, including Rhizophagus intraradices and Glomus mossae. These will benefit some tree and most non-tree species apart from brassicas and ericaceous plants, but do not form edible mushrooms.)