There are several fascinating shrooms that pop up in the very early autumn, but I don't see them every year. One is as big as a dinner plate, some are bright red.
The only mushroom I'd ever eat would be a morel, since I'm confident I know what they look like. But I've never found one, so I'm safe so far! All the ones I've eaten have come from Whole Foods.
While I love mushrooms, and eat lots of them, I'm not really fond of the exotic ones. The morels I bought I didn't think were all that. Shitakes are rubbery, as are most exotics. I like baby bellas, with just a little truffle oil.
I used to live not far from a mushroom farm and you could drive up to the front gate and the guard would have ‘lunch size’ brown bags of bellas for sale for 80¢ ...you’d get about 2 lbs. Good stuff!
I would love to find some morels. It would be an epic moment!