• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

FORAGER | CHEF

Award-winning chef, author and forager Alan Bergo. Food is all around you.

  • Home
  • About
  • Mushrooms
    • Mushroom Archive
    • Posts by Species
      • Other Mushrooms
        • Lobster Mushrooms
        • Huitlacoche
        • Shrimp of the Woods
        • Truffles
        • Morels
        • Shaggy Mane
        • Hericium
        • Puffball
      • Polypores
        • Hen of the Woods
        • Dryad Saddle
        • Chicken of The Woods
        • Cauliflowers
        • Ischnoderma
        • Beefsteak
      • Chanterelles
        • Black Trumpet
        • Hedgehogs
        • Yellowfeet
      • Gilled
        • Matsutake
        • Honey Mushrooms
        • Russula / Lactarius
          • Candy Caps
          • Saffron Milkcap
          • Indigo Milkcap
      • Boletes
        • Porcini
        • Leccinum
        • Slippery Jacks
    • Recipes
      • Fresh
      • Dried
      • Preserves
    • The Basics
  • Plants
    • Plant Archive
    • Leafy Green Recipes
      • Leafy Green Plant Varieties
    • Ramps and Onions
    • Wild Herbs and Spices
      • Spruce and Conifers
      • Pollen
      • Prickly Ash
      • Bergamot / Wild Oregano
      • Spicebush
      • Golpar / Cow Parsnip
      • Wild Carraway
    • Wild Fruit
      • Wild Plums
      • Highbush Cranberry
      • Wild Grapes
      • Rowanberries
      • Wild Cherries
      • Aronia
      • Nannyberry
      • Wild Blueberries
    • From The Garden
    • Nuts, Roots, Tubers and Grains
    • Stalks and Shoots
  • Meat
    • Four-Legged Animals
      • Venison
      • Small Game
    • Poultry
    • Fish/Seafood
    • Offal and Organ Meat Recipes
    • Charcuterie
  • Recipes
    • Pickles, Preserves, Etc
    • Fermentation
    • Condiments
    • Appetizers
    • Soup
    • Salad
    • Side Dishes
    • Entrees
    • Baking
    • Sweets
  • Video
    • Field, Forest Feast (The Wild Harvest)
    • Foraging Videos
    • Lamb and Goat Series
    • YouTube Tutorials
  • Press
    • Podcasts / Interviews
  • Work
    • Public Speaking
    • Charity and Private Dinners
    • Forays / Classes / Demos

Wild Mushroom Species

Huitlacoche, Utsilago maydis or corn smut in a field

Huitlacoche

The Chome-footed bolete, or Harrya chromapes, Tylopilus chromapes, Leccinum chromapes

Chrome Foot

Amanita amerirubescens from Wisconsin

Blushers

Black staining polypore or Meripilus sumstinei

Meripilus 

Gyroporus cyanescens or the cornflower bolete, an edible blue staining bolete

Cornflower Bolete

Wild golden oyster mushrooms or Pluerotus citrinopileatus

Oysters

Gyromitra mushrooms or false morels

Gyromitra 

Craterellus caeruleofuscus or the cerulean black trumpet mushroom

Blue Trumpets

Lactifluus volemus

L. volemus

Polyozellus multiplex or clustering blue chanterelles

Blue Chanterelles

Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus, a rare pig ear mushroom growing with oak

 Gomphus

Ramaria botrytis or pink tipped edible coral mushrooms

Botrytis Coral  

Gyroporus castaneus, the chestnut bolete (1)

Chestnut Bolete

Tylopilus indecisus or ferrugineus mushrooms

 Tylopilus

Matsutake Mushrooms from Minnesota

 Matsutake

Lactarius thyinos, an edible member of the saffrom milkcap mushroo family

L. thyinos

Boletus pallidus mushrooms harvested in Minnesota

B, Pallidus

Tricholoma caligatum the false matsutake

T. caligatum 

Blewit mushroom or Clitocybe nuda

Blewit

Bleeding milkcaps lactarius sanguifluus

Bleeding Milkcaps

black morel in northern minnesota

Black Morels

Pine Porcini Mushrooms

Pine”Porcini“

Hygrophorus Russula

H. Russula

scaber stalk leccinum mushrooms birch bolete edible minnesota

Scaber Stalk

Beefsteak mushrooms

Beefsteak

Candy Cap Mushrooms or Lactarius rubidus

Candy Caps

St George's Mushroom

St. George

Shaggy parasol Chlorophyllum rhacodes

Shaggy Parasol

fairy ring mushrooms, marasmius oreades

Fairy Rings

dead man's fingers, Xylaria polymorpha

Xylaria

craterellus fallax and craterellus cinereus var multiplex

Fragrants

Fried chicken mushrooms lyophyllum decastes

Fried Chicken

red chanterelles from wisconsin

Red Chanterelles

porcini, minnesota porcini, boletus edulis

Porcini

ischnoderma resinosum

Ischnoderma

shaggy mane coprinus comatus lawyers wig-4

Shaggy Mane

minnesota white chanterelles

White Chanterelles

craterullus cornocopioides, black trumpet mushroom

Black Trumpets

Hericium Mushroom hericium corralloides bears tooth

Hericium

Puffball Mushrooms

Puffballs

Yellowfoot Chanterelles

Yellowfeet

boletus subglabripes

Yellow Leccinum

suillus luteus slippery jack

Suillus Luteus

minnesota saffron milkcaps

Saffron Milkcaps

matsutake mushrooms

PNW Matsutake

wild lobster mushroom edible wild mushroom minnesosta

Lobster Mushrooms

hedgehog mushroom

Hedgehogs

honey mushrooms pidpenky minnesota wild mushrooms

Honeys

whorl tooth boletes minnesota edible wild mushrooms

Boletinellus

chicken of the woods minnesota

Sulphur Shelf

minnesota hen of the woods

Maitake

Bigfoot morel Morchella crassipes

Yellow/Grey Morels

aborted entoloma mushrooms edible

Aborted Entoloma

Cauliflower mushrooms

Cauliflowers

Meadow Mushrooms

Meadow Mushroom

The Fawn or Pluteus Cervinus

The Fawn

Indigo milkcaps lactarius indigo

Lactarius Indigo

Dryad saddle, pheasant back, or Cerioporus squamosus mushroom

Pheasant Back

clavacorona pyyxidata coral mushroom

Crown Corals

wild chanterelle mushrooms

Chanterelles

chicken fat bolete suillus americanus edible minnesota

Chicken Fat Bolete

lactarius salmoneus

Lactarius Salmoneus

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. David Griggs

    May 26, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    Hello Alan,
    I was wondering if you have ever tried Verpa bohemicas? Lots of older field guides list them as edible, new texts warn of gastric upset. I ate them years ago, and have just recently started harvesting them again. They are all over where I harvest ramps and fiddle heads, seems a shame to leave them out.

    I very much enjoy your posts, they inspire me to try new things. If you are ever in the Grand Rapids,Mn area stop in and say hi at the CVS in Target

    Dave

    • Alan Bergo

      May 27, 2019 at 12:01 pm

      Hey Dave! Take a look at my article here. Just cook them through, like a morel. The toxicology of Verpa is the same as Morchella. https://foragerchef.com/half-free-morels/

      • Richard Ransom

        September 6, 2019 at 10:50 pm

        What a brilliant series of edible images. How about links to mycology pages?

  2. Lisa M Converse

    September 28, 2019 at 5:12 pm

    I found a couple of mushrooms while foraging around my cabin. One is a coral, I believe one to be a waxy cap but the third I am stumped on. It looks like a brain in shape and very wet to the touch. the color is beige and it has no gills that I can see. any ideas?

Footer

Instagram

foragerchef

FORAGER | CHEF®
🍄🌱🍖
Author: The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora
2022 James Beard Nominee
Host: Field Forest Feast 👇
streaming on @tastemade

Alan Bergo
Oeufs de Gaulle is a classic morel recipe Jacques Oeufs de Gaulle is a classic morel recipe Jacques Pepin used to make for French president Charles de Gaulle. 

You bake eggs in a ramekin with shrimp topped with creamy morel sauce and eat with toast points. 

Makes for a really special brunch or breakfast. Recipe’s on my site, but it’s even better to watch Jacques make it on you tube. 

#jacquespepin #morels #shrimp #morilles #brunchtime
Morels: the only wild mushroom I count by the each Morels: the only wild mushroom I count by the each instead of the pound. 

Good day today, although my Twin Cities spots seem a full two weeks behind from the late spring. 2 hours south they were almost all mature. 

76 for me and 152 for the group. Check your spots, and good luck! 

#morels #murkels #mollymoochers #drylandfish #spongemushroom #theprecious
The first time I’ve seen fungal guttation-a natu The first time I’ve seen fungal guttation-a natural secretion of water I typically see with plants. 

I understand it as an indicator that the mushrooms are growing rapidly, and a byproduct of their metabolism speeding up. If you have some clarifications, chime in. 

Most people know it from Hydnellum 
peckii-another polypore. I’ve never seen it on pheasant backs before.

Morels are coming soon too. Mine were 1 inch tall yesterday in the Twin Cities. 

#guttation #mushroomhunting #cerioporussquamosus #pheasantback #naturesbeauty
Rain and heat turned the flood plain forest into a Rain and heat turned the flood plain forest into a grocery store. 

#groceryshopping #sochan #rudbeckialaciniata #foraging
Italian wild food traditions are some of my favori Italian wild food traditions are some of my favorite. 

Case in point: preboggion, a mixture of wild plants, that, depending on the reference, should be made with 5-23 individual plants. 

Here’s a few mixtures I’ve made this spring, along with a reference from the Oxford companion to Italian food. 

The mixture should include some bitter greens (typically assorted asters) but the most important plant is probably borage. 

Making your own version is a good excercise. Here they’re wilted with garlic and oil, but there’s a bunch of traditional recipes the mixture is used in. 

Can you believe this got cut from my book?!

#preboggion #preboggiun #foraging #traditionalfoods
Oh the things I get in the mail. This is my kind Oh the things I get in the mail. 

This is my kind of tip though: a handmade buckskin bag with a note and a handful of bleached snapping turtle claws. 😁😂 

Sent in by Leslie, a reader. 

Smells like woodsmoke and the cat quickly claimed it as her new bed. 

#buckskin #mailsurprise #turtleclaws #thisimylife #cathouse
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Privacy

  • Privacy Policy

Affiliate Disclosure

 I may earn a small commission for my endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from this website. Your purchases help keep this website free and help with the many costs involved with this site as it has continued to grow over the years. 

Copyright © 2022 ·