can anyone name these mushrooms

are they edible or non edible



Thank you

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It's difficult to say exactly what they are but they do look like field mushrooms. I wouldn't eat them unless you can get a positive id though. Field mushrooms are very similar to the button mushrooms you buy in the shops and are edible but it's better to be on the safe side.

Check the smell out!  If horse mushroom (which it looks like) should smell of aniseed or bitter almonds.

They do look like big field mushrooms but it is never worth taking a risk with gilled mushrooms. Let me recommend a site!

www.rogersmushrooms.com contains all the information you'll find in  Roger Phillips "Mushrooms" book, which is the best on the market. Everything is relevant: size, colour of stem, cap and gills, bruising, smell and habitat. Once you are sure, eat and enjoy!

This year is only just starting, but between this year and last we have eaten, frozen and dried:

* ceps (the best)
* bay boletes
* velvet boletes
* oyster mushrooms, wild off an old beech tree
* Lawyer's wigs
* cauliflower fungus
* puffballs
* parasol mushrooms

- all delicious and quite easy to recognise.

Ceps are indeed the tops, at least in this country which is too cold for Caesar's Mushroom.

And you are so right about the foragers.  :x  I live in Surrey and unless you find them early, at the start of the season, whole areas are completely stripped - even of old mushrooms, and also right down below the surface, which damages the mycelium and means they won't grow so well again next year.

I believe a lot of people make money by selling them to restaurants in London and Paris. I think we should have mushroom police enforcing a locals-only policy and forcing offenders to eat Amanita Phalloides (Death Cap to you and me)!

End of rant. Mushrooms are the best  

Plenty of good advice already, but you really have to be thorough if you're to safely identify a wild mushroom and eat it. Have a look at Mushrooms without fear: 9 steps to avoid poisoning yourself