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Not toxic, but too tough, bitter, or unpalatable to be worth eating.

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Not poisonous, but not worth eating. No culinary value.

Smooth tan birch polypore bracket with a white pore surface attached to a birch trunk

Birch Polypore

Fomitopsis betulina

Birch polypore is a smooth pale bracket found almost exclusively on birch. The birch host and unzoned…

Inedible
Bitter bolete mushroom in oak leaf litter with a smooth pale brown domed cap and a thick pale stem

Bitter Bolete

Tylopilus felleus

The bitter bolete will not hurt you and it will cost you dinner. It is not poisonous, and it is bitter…

Inedible
Blackening waxcaps showing bright conical caps and progressive charcoal-black bruising - Blackening Waxcap | KnowTheSpore

Blackening Waxcap

Hygrocybe conica

Blackening waxcap begins as a bright pointed yellow, orange, or red mushroom and darkens gray-black after…

Inedible
Crowded pale tan blistered cup fungi opening from dung-rich straw - Blistered Cup | KnowTheSpore

Blistered Cup

Peziza vesiculosa

Blistered cup is a pale tan cup fungus that often forms crowded, inflated young fruiting bodies on…

Inedible
False death cap mushroom in beech leaf litter with a pale lemon yellow cap carrying large white veil patches

False Death Cap

Amanita citrina

The name is a warning about your eyes rather than a rating of the mushroom. A false death cap is called that…

Inedible
Red-belted conk bracket on a fallen conifer

Red-Belted Conk

Fomitopsis pinicola

Red-belted conk is a hard perennial bracket with a dark varnished crust, a red-orange band, a pale growing…

Inedible

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