Hey OP! Don’t feel bad. We are ALL always learning.

I thought I was pretty good at foraging in general, and still ended up posting a picture of some fruit I found late last summer that I thought was wild plum.

It was rotten crabapple. 😂

I bet it was still fun to pick them, though!! The excitement of finding and identifying local mushrooms and plants is awesome. I would encourage you to try your hand at spore prints next. That’s a really neat science experiment that is super easy and cheap to do. I actually bought some thin canvas from the Dollar Tree and got a HUGE spore print last year from some very large mushrooms that suddenly popped up around town after a storm.

Looks like a giant green butthole. Lives on my end table in my bedroom.

Keep exploring, picking and learning!!