Wild Food UK Mushroom Foraging Guide

Bought for myself as a birthday treat, excellent buy! A5 size, good pictures, all in colour, good descriptions of fungi and habitats. I'm not going to start frying up anything I find, but I will be going out to work on my ID-ing skills with this.

This Wild Food UK Mushroom Foraging Guide has been an absolute game-changer for my woodland adventures. Thanks to its clear pictures and detailed descriptions, I’ve confidently identified some incredible edible mushrooms, including dryad’s saddle, shaggy inkcaps, sheathed woodtuft, glistening inkcaps, honey fungus, and the glorious chicken of the woods!The guide is compact enough to slip into my bag and durable enough to survive the occasional tumble in the undergrowth. It’s well-organized, making it easy to quickly check if my latest find is a culinary treasure or best left untouched.If you’ve never foraged, this book will quickly have you knowing your shaggy inkcaps from your common inkcaps, your honey fungus from deadly galerinas, and your chicken of the woods from sulfur shelf lookalikes. If you love foraging, this book will take your hobby to the next level. It’s turned my woodland strolls into treasure hunts, and my kitchen has never smelled better. Five stars for a guide that’s as delicious as the mushrooms it helps you find! 🍄👏

This guide is super helpful both to novice and experienced foragers, and easy to navigate. I'm Polish (based in Hampshire) and used to foraging and just spotting mushrooms, but there are some different species here in the UK. I love the fact that unlike in most guides, images show the overview of the mushroom but also the critical identifying elements: the gills (spores & etc.), the stalk, ring/skirt (where present) and the base (pointing out if with or without volva), etc. I've definitely learned to identify more and new species. Thank you very much. This guide is amazing and I totally recommend it, along with Marlow's YouTube channel for Wild Food in the UK. Great stuff!Moving on, in the next edition, I hope you can include warted amanitas (amanita strobiliformis) and solitary hedgehog amanitas (amanita echinocephala) as I keep finding them down south (chalky soils and beech trees) and they are beautiful mushrooms, well worth spotting and knowing about. Thank you!

I have several books about mushrooms. This one is best to use as a guide. Easy comparison between edible and poisonous mushrooms, lots of pictures, great description. If you are in to foraging it's a must.

Clear, concise. Shows things that a forager would actually be looking for, if its not in here, its probably not worth looking at.

We had a large bloom of fungi in our front garden. They looked delicious! But I bought this book and found it easy to learn that eating them would have made me quite poorly - not dead, but unwell. I can't really say fairer than that!

The best foraging book you can buy.

This is a great book to help you identify mushroom, compact and easy to take with you. I have done Thier foraging courses and this was great to add to that knowledge, I use this with my other books but I must say this is probably my favourite. highly recommend