PH Mycologists - Identify my mushrooms

[tr7ster]

OK, not my mushrooms per se, but some I spotted while out on a woodland walk yesterday. I quite like the idea of a bit of foraging for my food but unfortunately, when it comes to mushrooms, I'm much too uncertain about what I'm looking at to pick them without the threat of poisoning myself.

So I'd be interested to know if any of you can identify these with any certainty; don't worry, I'm not going to go back and pick them so you're not going to kill me if you say they are edible and tasty. I will however keep the spot in mind for potential future, more informed foraging, as it looked to be very fertile. There were at least six or seven other varieties all within close proximity, including a Boletus of some kind.

However the ones I'd like help with to start with are as follows:







Ta!

[Mobile Chicane]

tr7ster said:

OK, not my mushrooms per se, but some I spotted while out on a woodland walk yesterday. I quite like the idea of a bit of foraging for my food but unfortunately, when it comes to mushrooms, I'm much too uncertain about what I'm looking at to pick them without the threat of poisoning myself.

So I'd be interested to know if any of you can identify these with any certainty; don't worry, I'm not going to go back and pick them so you're not going to kill me if you say they are edible and tasty. I will however keep the spot in mind for potential future, more informed foraging, as it looked to be very fertile. There were at least six or seven other varieties all within close proximity, including a Boletus of some kind.

However the ones I'd like help with to start with are as follows:







Ta!

Top: Scleroderma (earth ball), or some form of Cortinarius. Not edible.

Middle: Collybia butyracea (butter cap). Not edible.

Bottom: Hypholoma fasculare (sulphur tuft). Not edible.

The golden rule of fungi foraging is that there is no golden rule as to what's what: you have to know all the families.

However, my golden rule of fungi foraging is that if there's a lot of it, it isn't edible.

[folos]

Anyone want to identify these for me? Growing outside my house.

[Mobile Chicane]

I'd need to see the underside of the fungi in order to make an accurate assessment. However they don't look like any good edible species that I know.

[folos]

The wind must have blown it up so I took this pic, my friend seems to think it's Boletus Luridus

Edited by folos on Sunday 19th October 20:28

[folos]

[Bit of a Unit]

Had no means to carry home whilst walking the dog but I think a fan of oyster shrooms later on May have filled their boots.

Rules for these on checking if there's one bigger than your palm dive in as the poisonous ones are only very small.

Gutted as they'd had made a fabulous post walk snack.

[Mobile Chicane]

Bit of a Unit said:

Had no means to carry home whilst walking the dog but I think a fan of oyster shrooms later on May have filled their boots.

Rules for these on checking if there's one bigger than your palm dive in as the poisonous ones are only very small.

Gutted as they'd had made a fabulous post walk snack.

No, just no.

Such 'advice' is simply wrong: you either know your species or you don't.

[Mobile Chicane]

folos said:

The wind must have blown it up so I took this pic, my friend seems to think it's Boletus Luridus

Edited by folos on Sunday 19th October 20:28

No it isn't. The Boletus family (all of them) have pores on the underside and not gills.

[Bit of a Unit]

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Mobile Chicane said:

No, just no.

Such 'advice' is simply wrong: you either know your species or you don't.

I'm bloody sure they're oysters. But I agree with your sentiment. If I see them again I will be harvesting and eating with confidence.

[Baryonyx]

Before stting your pants soon afterwards due to your ill-advised gamble.