<i>However, please be sure to bring along a local when doing so</i><p>This is a pet peeve of a biologist I know: even though I know nobody who can determine species like he can, he&#x27;s still very strongly against collecting mushrooms in the wild and does not do it himself. According to him there are just too many edible mushrooms with a poisonous look-alike which in some cases prefers the same surroundings as habitat and in for which the distinction can only be made by smell, or by squeezing it and see how the color changes, etc. Not sure he&#x27;s exaggerating but it does illustrate why people die from eating mushrooms out of the wild, time and time again.