Photo credit: Handout | People stop and pore over specimens of mushrooms foraged at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay. (2009)
With hundreds of mushrooms species growing on Long Island, a few are bound to spring up in your yard from time to time. With that little fungi comes inevitable questions: Is it poisonous? Or edible?
Many local experts on the matter are members of the Long Island Mycological Club, a group that makes regular forays through the woods in search of safe-to-eat plants and fungi (first rule of foraging:……