mal55
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Are these funghi edible?Hi. I've just found these in the back lawn. They smell like mushrooms.
Can anyone identify them please? are they edible?
Cheers
Mal
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nettie
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Hi Mal, welcome to the site! Can you please also postt a pic of a cross section? (A pic in sharper focus would be good) 
Does it bruise yellow at all?
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mal55
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Thanks Nettie.
That better?
There is no staining when they're cut and no ring around the stalk. The browning on the stalk is maggot damage.
mal
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Jamanda
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One of the mushroom experts will be along before too long. 
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cab
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Not possible to say for definite, most likely ID is a really young Agaricus porphyrocephalus or something along those lines.
Edit: by which I mean another similar Agaricus species.
Any hints of anything other than just 'mushroom' in the smell?
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Lorrainelovesplants
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I think I saw something like these in our paddock thisevening. They wre just like button mshrooms, and white with pinky glls ad a real mushrom smell. No veil. Was tempted, but dont want to die. 
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bingo
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Like Cab said.
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mal55
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Cheers Cab. So does that mean they're probably edible? The only thing i can say about the smell is that it's delicious! Like really fresh mushrooms. As lorrainelovesplants says, theyre like button mushrooms but I wont risk it.
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cab
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Funny thing with that particular Agaricus is that it isn't always listed as being edible. I always eat it, though...
So yes, probably edible. If your'e confident in your ID that is. Remember, all mushrooms are edible, some of them only once...
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mal55
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Thanks cab. Much appreciated!
Mal
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REDDRAGON
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FRY UPMUSHROOMS , GET THE PAN OUT
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earthyvirgo
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I'd be eating those, apart perhaps from the one on the right which looks like (I might be wrong) it's had a visiting maggot?
EV
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fungi2bwith
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There is no need to be too fussy with wild mushrooms. The odd maggot will not do you much harm. I find it is best to not look too closely 
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Minamoo
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| fungi2bwith wrote: | | There is no need to be too fussy with wild mushrooms. The odd maggot will not do you much harm. I find it is best to not look too closely |
I have been known to dig maggots out of a mushroom with my knife and just eat the rest. If you're drying them, they tend to wriggle out of the mushroom slices so you can pick the ones you've left behind with tweezers if they poking out or just brush them off. It's fine if I don't see them but I once made a mushroom stroganoff and as I was eating it, I noticed that one of the grains of rice wasn't actually rice. It did turn my stomach a bit. Not too much though as I just chucked that bit of rice out and ate the rest.
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cab
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Loads of Agaricus of various types springing up around here. They love it wet.
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mal55
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I wish there was somewhere local I could go to learn which are edible
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