My mother and I used to pick morels all the time. But that was years ago and now I’d be scared to try that. Funny how it was so routine and we took it for granted. We never hunted for any mushroom except morels.
Well, I don’t know the names. We just used to call them button mushrooms. But yes, we knew what we were looking for and what was bad. And we picked something my uncle called spungoli’s. The caps on those were narrow and perforated.
Now you can purchase grow kits that you actually insert into holes of an old log and voila. Safe mushrooms in the wild. I’m thinking that might be slightly better than the canned ones from China. ;)