How To Tell If A Mushroom Is Poisonous

Amanitas

In the Amanita family, all the mushrooms have white gills and spores. They grow from a sack-like bulbous structure called a volva. Only a few mushrooms in the Amanita family are edible. Most poisonous mushrooms in the UK belong to this family. The extremely poisonous Death Caps and the Destroying Angels belong to this family.