Help identifying some mushrooms

[tamalito]

I was taking pictures of some flowers outside my mom's garden and came across a few mushies

I know NOTHING about mushrooms and was wondering if someone would help me identify them

I am in Chihuahua, Mexico

 

[Mary Terry]

I have no idea what they are but please don't eat them unless you identify them as positively safe to eat!

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

If you are thinking of eating one, I would recommend against that. Harvesting mushrooms is very risky if you don't know exactly what you are looking for.

 

[Judge]

I have no idea what they are but please don't eat them unless you identify them as positively safe to eat!

Yep. As I recall, wild foods advocate Euell Gibbons' last words were, "Tastes like wild hickory nuts."

 

[tamalito]

Oh no, I'm not planning on eating any of them

I know they can be super dangerous if you don't know what they are!

I'm just curious

 

[Judge]

That was a joke...for much of anyone as old as I am.

 

[Judge]

Reminds me of that scene in the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)

Snooty Restaurateur: "It's a caper, sir."
Public Health Inspector: "No, it's a rat turd."
Snooty Restaurateur: "It's a caper!"
Public Health Inspector: "Fine. Then here. You eat it."

 

[TBRS1]

Growing on fertilized lawn? They look like one of the panaeolus genus (do an internet search for "panaeolus" to see photos).

Take a spore print. It should be very dark brown or purple brown or black.

Can't tell which, though. Panaeolus generally require microscopic examination to identify the species.

Also, I'm not conversant in non-local mushrooms. I'm from the frozen north.

(also, if they ARE Panaeolus, they are mildly hallucinogenic, so may or may not be edible, depending on how you feel about that. DO NOT eat them based on my vague and tentative identification)

 

[tkcartoonist]

Euell Gibbons died of a heart attack.

 

[tamalito]

Growing on fertilized lawn?

The lawn is not fertilized, I think

I'm from the frozen north.

I'm from the scorching hot and dry south

 

[TBRS1]

They are generally found in lawns (here). The places that have ground crews to fertilize lawns (country clubs, condo developments) will produce them in quantity.

They grow is shady places on my lawn, which I don't fertilize.

Mushrooms CAN be very cosmopolitan, and many species show up in different places, provided the right microclimate.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I was taking pictures of some flowers outside my mom's garden and came across a few mushies

I know NOTHING about mushrooms and was wondering if someone would help me identify them

I am in Chihuahua, Mexico

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The whiter one is almost surely a Coprinus. Look for a black spore print and deliquescing gills.

The others, it is very difficult to tell from the photos.

For identification, pictures need to show the top of the cap, the underside of the cap, the stalk, where the stalk attaches to the cap and the stalk at or under the ground. Make a spore print and take a picture of that as well.

There is a large group of mushrooms that even mycologists will call “little brown mushrooms” when asked to identify them.

 

[Mary Terry]

Euell Gibbons died of a heart attack.

He died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age 64. No one knows if his diet contributed to his early death but it kind of puts a chill on the idea of trying to live on nothing but wild stuff you find in the pastures and woods.

 

[Mary Terry]

The lawn is not fertilized, I think



I'm from the scorching hot and dry south

I'm sure it's not peyote.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

He died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age 64. No one knows if his diet contributed to his early death but it kind of puts a chill on the idea of trying to live on nothing but wild stuff you find in the pastures and woods.

I doubt the aneurysm had anything to do with his diet, unless there’s a lot of saturated fat and salt in a wild food diet. An aneurysm is usually silent and undiscovered until it bursts.

For me, eating wild foods feels holy. A spiritual practice of directly taking a life to continue my own. Even picking leaves off a plant or gathering wild strawberries.

I do eat wild mushrooms, but I am pretty well educated and experienced and careful.

 

[tamalito]

I'm sure it's not peyote.

We do get peyote in the very deserted areas of this state

I've seen it once and it's so pretty!

 

[Mary Terry]

We do get peyote in the very deserted areas of this state

I've seen it once and it's so pretty!

I've seen it growing in the western USA. It is pretty.