Forest Fungi

After the summer drought we wondered how the fungi would be this autumn but there has obviously been enough rain for the mushrooms in this picture because they were everywhere we walked in the forest!  However, we won’t be eating them because this part of Sweden was very effected by the fallout after Chernobyl and for around 15 years all fungi was considered too radioactive to eat. (It rained very hard here, just as the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl was passing over us.) That broke our habit of autumn mushroom hunting and we’ve never really got back to it. The only mushroom we do eat is Chanterelle mushrooms when we find them.
On to the picture...
On the top row there are several Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushrooms. These are poisonous. They have been used in traditional societies as a hallucinogen but reading about the symptoms and the unreliability of dosing I will not be nibbling at them. This species is one to photograph and leave in place.  Fortunately it is very easy to recognise.
The two small fungi on the bottom left are Lactarius deterrimus, also known as false saffron milkcap or orange milkcap,
Some guides suggest they are a “good” food mushroom, while others rate them less highly while agreeing they are edible. They get more and more bitter as they get older.
The final mushroom, next to my foot in the picture, is a cep, Boletus edulis (also known as penny bun or porcini)
The cep is definitely edible and considered very tasty, but the ones we find in the forest are generally full of worms.
Even if we don't eat them fungi are fun to find and photograph!