Mushrooms

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Would anyone be able to identify these mushrooms? I've checked online and with one of those identification apps but I'm not getting a conclusive answer. I'm a bit concerned that they might be poisonous as I have 2 very young children.

They are all really big. Some are flat and turn up at the edges and some are like huge button mushrooms. The flat ones are scaley underneath.

And these

A photo of the underneath would help.

The flat ones are brownish underneath, the others are white.

The domed ones could be younger versions of the flat ones, just as button mushrooms are flat mushrooms picked early. Gill colours often change as the fruits get older.

Are your children playing on the grass at this time of year? The fruits will be gone by spring.

How old are they? The age when you accompany and watch them outside, or the age at which they can be told not to touch?

Don’t try to id via an app - they’re not reliable enough especially for someone who doesn’t know the key characters to look at, and the penalty for a misidentification too large. Same applies to internet. Try and find a local mycologist - if nothing else, see who is running fungus forays in the area.

I am not good with mushrooms, but clouded funnel and yellow stainer (if it goes yellow when bruised) are possibilities.

If you have children too young to understand 'stay away', who will be out unsupervised, you might want to remove them. Otherwise just tell the kids not to touch or eat them.

The first ones look like parasols

Which aren’t poisonous and are in fact absolutely delicious… but it’s hard to be certain over the internet so don’t take my word for it

Thanks all. I do get rid of them when I see them but worry I miss one and my youngest (18 months) tries to pick it up and eat it. Hopefully we get a dry spell soon so we can cut the grass and make sure they're all gone.

Clouded funnel doesn't have brownish gills, and the gills are decurrent, which these don’t seem to be.

They might be field mushrooms. You can check if yellow stainer by bruising to top gently and yellow will appear after around five to ten minutes.

I love foregoing for mushrooms and identifing them.

They might indeed be field mushrooms but never eat anything on the basis of an internet id.

I’m also very cautious about telling anyone that something they’ve found is edible, even if I’m close on 100% certain of my id.