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islandpiper:
A mushroom chaser in Michigan told me that there is a way to tell good from bad with a sheet of back paper.   He leaves them on the paper overnight, gills down and checks to see if they drop spores.  But, he didn't bother to tell me if they should or should not.   Anybody heard of that before? 

I'm still buying mine at the store but would like to know more about wild ones.   thanks, piper

Tsalagi:
All mushrooms drop spores. It's the color of the spores that offer a clue as to the species ID.

Hillbilly:
What Tsalagi said. And sometimes you have to look at the spores under a microscope to ID some groups of shrooms.

Postman:
It helps to do 1/2 black paper and 1/2 white.

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