Were the Olives with Pimento nice?
thats a lovely shirt
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They were
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Made of Kevlar. You’d need it on the mainland.
That’s his Big Country shirt
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big night tonight in Moycullen, a lovely pair of bootcut jeans an brown shoes to complete the look
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To answer an important question simply because it is an important question: I am far from an expert but would say, as a reasonably informed layman of mycology, do not eat those mushrooms under any circumstances. Never attempt to eat any mushroom of which you are not a million per cent sure. Mushrooms age and often differ considerably in appearance between when young and when mature or old. A lot of poisonings occur due to misidentification on age grounds.
Those crucial caveats made, I would be fairly sure those items are mature/overripe parasol mushrooms. As such, presuming I am correct, they are edible in principle but not worth the bother, since they would be way past their best.
I have eaten parasol mushrooms a few times. Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall goes on about them but to me they are like, even when young, a dilute form of wild field mushrooms – les gris, as the French name goes. Nothing great and nothing terrible, like a date with the sister of a girl you really fancy.
But: do not eat those mushrooms.
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Parasol mushroom would have a ring on its stipe though, like in your own photo? The photos up there look too much like a Fools Funnel, I’d be leaving them where I found them.
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Well, yes, as I said. I was giving too much weight to the gills’ appearance.
Something about the cap of those mushrooms did not sit well with me. Edible parasol mushrooms have a shaggy/scaly cap. Those ones look to have more or less a matt cap.
I think, on mature reflection, those mushrooms are these type of parasols, which are poisonous:
Here is the serious difficulty of mushroom identification,: the effects of ageing and the fact spore printing cannot be done at a distance. I thought the cap might have turned that way with age. But no…
So: never eat one, unless million per cent sure.
I think you are right, thanks. A mature fool’s funnel. Cap can turn that shade.
This exchange shows exactly why mushrooms are so dangerous.
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There were loads of these boletes around a few weeks ago. I believe they are edible and even meant to be quite nice. But I would not chance it. No way. Besides, these boletes are supposedly like common ink caps in how they react adversely with alcohol if you consume them 48 hours before or after consuming alcohol.
Thanks. Duly noted.
My young lad found them and is desperate to eat them.
Thanks also @FlakeAway, if it was me I might chance them, but I’d better not feed them to him.
The wan thing I read was white gills, don’t eat 
Just read the next bit 
Looks like top of a bolete – an old one.
But I don’t know, in effect.
