I’m very jealous.
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No need… Another five or six weeks in the cep season. They like cool temperatures, I read.
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Your epitaph would write itself, if that’s any consolation.
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‘He mushroomed too well’…
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“He had good morels and died doing what he loved”
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He was a fun guy / He was a fungus
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Think I might survive to post again. From what I can glean from multiple sources, the key identifier with a horse mushroom is the so called ‘cogwheel’ pattern on the stalk ring, which is clearly present in this one.
The other key point is no yellow staining when stalk is cut, which did not happen when I cut this stalk.
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I actually picked a mushroom yesterday evening, looked underneath, saw that feature so threw it away.
Thanks for posting. I find all these exchanges highly Interesting. And you were a most wise man. Far better throw away a million good mushrooms than eat a single bad one.
Where did you find it, if I may ask? And you threw away that mushroom because it did not conform to standard field mushroom characteristics?
I spent hours last night and today reading up about horse mushrooms, after a brother sent me photos of a mushroom flush on his lawn. Immediately guessed they were horse mushrooms, on the basis of close ups likewise sent of one he picked – but a guess is no good and could be deadly.
Sidenote: would now guess the mushrooms @glenshane posted the other day were horse mushrooms.
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Just in a field that runs beside the passage where I walk the dog. A large flat cap mushroom caught my eye, and i spotted that smaller, button type mushroom beside it. I picked both, but being late evening the large one wasnt the freshest looking and when i looked under the small one it looked very similar to what youve posted above. Given i had doubts about both I just left them where they were.
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This is one of the best threads on the internet.
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We love our hurling on TFK but we love our mushrooms as well.
I am emboldened by this comment, and by the one below it, to give an account of my horse mushrooms experience yesterday evening.
No ill effects at all, thus far. But horse mushrooms are significantly different in flavour to field mushrooms. Horse mushrooms have a sort of metallic taste – a bit like some kinds of offal. Would compare them to lamb kidneys.
Not for everyone. I quite enjoyed them. But very much an acquired taste, I would say.
I think mushroom books are a bit skimpy on horse mushrooms’ pronounced difference to field mushrooms. These two kinds are only second cousins, so to speak.
I would say horse mushrooms are first cousins to yellow stainers – if entirely without the bad effects. I did accidentally cook some yellow stainers a few years ago – package had not been picked by me – and the smell off the frying pan was only wojous because of their presence in it. Ink and urine smells, as all the guidebooks note.
A strong smell came off the horse mushrooms, yesterday evening, as I cooked them in a pot. Strong rather than unpleasant – but very strong.
I reckon horse mushrooms might pair well with fennel and cider. So I am scouting a chicken casserole with those ingredients so as to use up the remaining horse mushrooms.
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I picked a bunch of them the other day.
My sister is home at the moment and Oddly enough she offered to make a mushroom soup out of them. She isn’t much of a cook. We’ll she wasn’t anyway when I last met her pre covid.
I wouldn’t eat a mushroom fried but I’d drink the soup.
She left only mushroom out of the soup.
My mother eyed it up and noticed maggots on it 
Needless to say the soup which was just heated was dumped.
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I hear this is one of the most plentiful years for mushrooms and blackberries ? Any reason for that?
I’ve never seen a blackberry & sloe crop like it. The bushes are still heaving with them.
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Was not a particularly plentiful year for field mushrooms. August far too dry.
This year, there was a massive flush of field mushrooms in places after the heavy rain in early September. But I saw mushrooms flushing from late June to late September in 2010, 2011 and 2013. So…
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They are still about today anyway
Field mushrooms?