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These have popped up with a vengeance in our lawn - are they edible? There used to be a large maple tree about 8 feet away - but it was chopped down many years ago.

Many years ago my parents took me to Beachy Head in Sussex, in the grassland on top of the cliffs we found wild mushrooms.
Dad assured us they were edible as they peeled as mushrooms do.

Took some home and ate them next day for breaakfast.



That was the last time I ate 'mushrooms' that were found growing wild

When our daughters were a lot younger than they are now we used to camp a lot in Wales the camp site owner used to let us walk his fields we usually had his children with us ,we spent many an evening picking mushrooms most are ok to eat but you do have to be careful, nobody in their right mind would look at a photograph and say they are ok to eat ,there are many ways to tell mushrooms from other inedible fungi my wife starts with the smell I don't have a sense of smell but I look for a ring around the stem ,you have to be very careful even the so called experts get poisoned

So tempting isn't it to make use of nature's freebies when we come across them and they may be edible but it's definitely a
case of " get an expert to identify them first." I went on an autumn identification walk with an expert in some woods near us some years ago and one or two funghi he identified looked edible but weren't. If you can find a fungus identification book in your local library that might give you a clue but personally I'd want to see somebody pick, cook and eat them without dropping down dead before I' d be tempted to try them!

Absolutely - I don't think I'll be popping them into the frying pan with a knob of butter - just in case.