unidentified fungi !!

[dodger]

Hi everyone

Can anyone identify this fungi for me, one of my raised beds is covered with them, can only assume that some of the bagged compost I have used contained spores and they have germinated.

[veggiechicken]

Is it growing from the woodchip?

[Nicos]

Well...don't think about eating them will you!...you just never know!

[lottie dolly]

if in doubt,leave it out,

[Snoop Puss]

Not easy to identify from your photo. You'd need a picture of the gills and of the stem (to see if there's a frill around it) and possibly even of the cut stem to see its structure and the colour of any liquid that oozes out to be absolutely sure.

It's always interesting to see them popping up, but it's not wise to eat them unless you've got an expert on hand to advise you. I wouldn't eat anything I could only identify from an image. There are too many poisonous ones that look very like some edible mushrooms.

I collect our local mushrooms but only a select few that I know for certain what they are. Anything else, I leave.

[dodger]

Thanks for the replies, I dont plan on eating them just didnt understand where they came from. That bed is the only one with wood chips on it supplied by the council, I used the same wood chips for the pathways between the beds and have some growing from them as well. I think that whwerever they got the wood from to chip contained mushroom spores and I have allowed them to germinate !! Will dig them all out now.

[veggiechicken]

I have them too and don't worry about it - they're feeding on the wood chip and helping it to decompose.

[purplekat]

Yeah, wood chip tends to grow fungi as part of the decomposition process. It's generally a good thing, so unless there are any small children that are likely to try and eat them, I would leave them to it.

[snakeshack]

They look like honey fungus,but I can't be sure ,you should be able to see thick bootlace type fungal threads in the wood chip.as already said don't eat anything you haven't positively identified.

[Muddy_Boots]

Yea I will reiterate what has already been said, whatever they are just leave them alone as they are only feeding on the decomposing wood and not anything else.

Fungus can pop up anywhere, it just needs the correct conditions to grow and if anything is wrong it won't. Some is beneficial to plants and some not and some plants need it to survive at all.