Edible mushrooms?
 

There are hundreds/thousands of mushrooms growing in the rights-of-way in The Villages. They come up wild and usually in an arc pattern.
Are these mushrooms edible? See pictures
I cannot convince my wife to eat them!

Yes they are I went foraging with mushrooms with my father for years. The only problem here is the grass everywhere is sprayed with insecticides, etc. I would not dare pick one

No. The county agricultural people said these mushrooms are poisonous. So please quit trying to get your wife to eat them.

I read an article last year about mushrooms and they said unless you're an expert DON'T even think about eating any. So many are poison.

Eating? No answer....your arc pattern....if you notice a complete circle.... Common characteristic
PLEASE take a pic to send me...
Also where it was taken..maybe I can go there to tale my own pic.....
Thank you in advance...

It is kind of a trial and error thing.

Too funny!

Even morels have a poisonous look-alike. If the stem is hollow, it is a morel .If it looks like a morel but the stem is solid, it is not.

my grandfather used to pick wild mushrooms often. My grandmother when cooking/frying them always put a silver dollar in the bottom of the pan. If it stayed shiny the shrooms were good to eat. If it turned black or brown they got thrown out.

I am not offering this as a way to tell if they are or not. Just sharing a memory from way, way, WAY back in time.

My mom called the mushrooms growing in a circle fairy rings.

That's "true" life experience!

Mushrooms..
 

I just eat up stories like yours!!, next time I'm with friends"poking the fire" on a cool night ..you will know I 'll be telling this story...my MAMAW had some other home traits too...
I do miss her....

Are you wanting your wife to eat them before you do?????

They look like poisonous toad stoles to me!



I from the midwest and as kid picked many morel's for extra income (in 60's 5 bucks pound was easy money for kid that was in the outdoors anyway), yes morel's has poisonous look-alike as Cfrance pointed out. Once you've seen and picked morels you can tell the differents real easy.

As for the toad stole looking mushrooms I would touch them with 10 foot pole. So, I would NEVER pick wild mushroom in the deep south. WHY I'm not from the area. If you like toad stole looking mushroom I would just buy them out of the store. I don't care for them cause once you tasted wild fresh morels the store buttom mushrooms don't have much taste.