There is no foolproof way to distinguish which mushroom is edible and which is poisonous. According to the health ministry, one person died earlier this year after eating wild mushrooms.

His wild mushroom safety ... is commonly known as a ringless honey mushroom as Stephanie Hanna, left, from Orlando, looks on. The mushroom might have been edible, but when Landseadel sliced ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mushrooms are everywhere — on forest floors, in gardens, in networks connecting below our feet. The largest organism ...