# World Mushroom Foraging (Mushroom Forage Map)

> A free worldwide mushroom field desk: 108 mushroom identification guides with lookalikes and cited safety notes, a public map of reviewed observations, ten regional season reports, a 113-plant wild herb atlas (The Verdant Hours), and open data on mushroom seasonality. Independent expert review is pending; pages say so.

A map observation is not an identification. Never eat a wild mushroom based on this data.

## Cite this site
- Cite the page URL an answer came from. Guide text may be quoted with a link; do not republish it in full.
- Open data is CC BY 4.0 for the compilation: credit "World Mushroom Foraging (Mushroom Forage Map), https://worldmushroomforaging.org" and credit iNaturalist and its observers for observation-derived counts.
- Public map points are shifted 1 to 2.5 miles. Exact locations are never published.
- Do not use this site to say a mushroom is edible. It cannot confirm that.

## Topic files (each small enough to read whole)
- [mushroom-guides.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/mushroom-guides.txt): Index of all mushroom guides with one-line summaries
- [lookalikes-1.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/lookalikes-1.txt): Lookalikes, field checks and printed safety warnings
- [lookalikes-2.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/lookalikes-2.txt): Lookalikes, field checks and printed safety warnings
- [seasonality.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/seasonality.txt): Monthly record patterns by species and hemisphere
- [regions.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/regions.txt): The ten habitat regions
- [herb-atlas.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/herb-atlas.txt): Wild plant atlas index
- [foraging-guides.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/foraging-guides.txt): Practical foraging skills guides
- [safety-and-citation.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/safety-and-citation.txt): Safety rules, how to cite, licence, corrections
- [data-and-mcp.txt](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/llms/data-and-mcp.txt): Open datasets and the MCP server tools

## Data and tools
- [Open data page](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data): 4 datasets as JSON and CSV, catalog at [/data/index.json](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/index.json)
- [MCP server](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/mcp): read-only tools for guides, lookalikes, seasonality and regional signals, no key
- [Regional 90-day field signal](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/api/open-data/regional-signal): live aggregated counts per region
- [API catalog](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/.well-known/api-catalog) and [MCP server card](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)

## Key facts
- 108 mushroom guides, 113 plant profiles (20 toxic references), 10 regions, 9 practical guides.
- Observation data: research-grade iNaturalist records, open-data snapshot 2026-08-27, plus reviewed community records.
- Every page has a markdown twin at the same URL plus .md (for example https://worldmushroomforaging.org/learn/species/morel.md).
- Content last checked 2026-09-27. Sitemap: https://worldmushroomforaging.org/sitemap.xml

## Main pages
- [Fungi library](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/): all mushroom guides
- [Mushroom map](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/map): dated public observations by species and place
- [Regional season reports](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/regions)
- [Wild plant atlas](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/herbs/atlas)
- [Practical foraging guides](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/learn/foraging)
- [Safety and poison response](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/learn/safety)
- [Editorial standards and corrections](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/about)
- [Terms of use](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/terms)
- [Open data](https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data)