Is this edible?

[Bex]

I found it under my fruit bushes...

[veggiechicken]

Sorry Bex, but its not wise to try to identify fungi from photos - especially in terms of edibility.
There are plenty of good websites that may help.
I like this one Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference

[WendyC]

I think you need to be really careful identifying from a photo. Is there someone knowledgeable near you you could ask? Personally I wouldn't risk it!

[Bex]

Don't worry, I wasn't planning on eating it. I think I'll dig it up.

[veggiechicken]

Ah, I assumed you might have, since you'd asked if it was edible
I leave fungi in situ, to do their thing, breaking down wood to make soil etc.

[Bex]

Shall I leave it then? If it does good? I don't suppose it can hurt can it

[veggiechicken]

I'd leave it - I'm an old softy with fungi

[Aberdeenplotter]

hmmmmph , I'm an old fun guy and I wouldn't like to be left to make soil

[meteor]

Oh Bex please leave it unless you can get a fungi expert to identify it there on the spot. I nearly lost a good friend in the military years ago who was poisoned and nearly died from eating what he identified from a manual as good mushrooms.!!!

[Zelenina]

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It looks to me as if they could well be edible, so don't dig them up. But as VC and Wendy have said, we can't identify them reliably from a photo. (I agree with their other reasons for not digging them up too.)

You need to check things like what it smells like, and does the flesh change colour when you cut it. And those photos don't show what the bottom of the stem looks like, which is also very important. So you should use a good identification guide-book or website, or even better to cross-check with more than one.

Or find a neighbour from Slovakia. Mushroom hunting is a big pastime here, and people eat far more species than us Brits and Irish people would dare to. Although not all Slovaks are experts. I showed some mushrooms that I was sure were edible to some neighbours and they shook their heads and looked very dubious. Then a few days later, when they were past their best, I showed them to another neighbour who really knows about mushrooms, and he said they were very good to eat.