Are these edible?

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Charlie P. (NY)

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Edible at least once. Survivable . . . less certain.

I have two books on identifying mushrooms and I still only trust two that I find locally. For every one that is safely edible there are four that look just like it that are toxic or unsafe to eat. Some that grow on tree are edible, while another that looks identical but grows in the soil is not.

Seek out someone (like from a cooperative extension office) that can examine them first hand.

I used to work in a neighboorhood that had a lot of decendents of Scandanavian immigrants and mushroom season in the spring was a bigger event than deer season in the fall.
 

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Do your research. They look like honey mushrooms but you need a spore print. They look like honeys and could be ringed or ringless. I see the gills run down the stem which is good but IDing from pictures is always difficult. Google "How To Identify Honey Mushrooms And Their Poisonous Lookalikes"
 

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Could fall in to this category:
Cyclocybe aegerita, also called Agrocybe cylindracea, Agrocybe aegerita or Pholiota aegerita, is a mushroom in the genus Cyclocybe which is commonly known as the poplar mushroom, chestnut mushroom, or velvet pioppini.

Best thing to do is to meat up with a local forger/herbalist that knows the IDs of mushrooms.
 

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I'm a big fan of mushroom foraging, and I would not eat those, even if I could identify them. There are a handful of wild mushrooms that are delicious and easily recognizable, such as morels, hen of the woods, oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, lobster mushrooms, and a few others. The rest of them are simply not worth harvesting because of the risk involved. If it doesn't even taste all that good, why take a chance?
 

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