But like identifying any kind of wild food, foraging for edible mushrooms requires extensive knowledge on how to do so safely. Fortunately, there are some types of edible mushrooms that are so common and easy to identify that you can learn—with practice—how to safely forage for them. This is one of the most common misconceptions that beginner foragers have about types of edible mushrooms. Other edible mushrooms, like morels, are only edible when fully cooked. Final Thoughts on Types of Edible MushroomsBefore you get comfortable harvesting and cooking wild mushrooms, you must get comfortable identifying them, Blizzard says.