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I am always on the lookout for them, they are a good edible. Though the only place I found them was on the East coast.

How did you learn to distinguish between edible and poisonous mushrooms?

Lots of reading and mushroom guides. I know quite a few of the main edibles where I live but if I go to nearby areas then I end up having to learn more about what I've found.

There is no wide variety of mushrooms in Cyprus and in general there are few mushrooms :-(

Yeah it sounds like a desert similar to where I grew up, good for cactus variety maybe.