Are there edible jelly fungi that grow in soil?

One of my hugels is overrun with some kind of jelly fungus this year. Think they're edible? There's lots of wood in the bed, but these are growing on the soil.

That looks an awful lot like wood-ear mushrooms; try reading up on the genus Auricularia! They could certainly be growing from the dead, buried wood. Of course, get confirmation from several sources before eating.

From where I sit they look more like fungi in the genus Peziza (inedible) as the cup is facing up towards the sky & they are growing from the soil. Exception: some Peziza species grow from wood chips.
Fungi in the genus Auricularia (edible) all grow directly on wood, as far as I know, & their cups face downward towards the earth.
Note: animals, weather, humans, etc can sometimes turn the fungi over & make the cup-facing direction a bit more difficult to decipher.
Another way to tell the difference between these two genera is that Pezizas are brittle & crack & break when you try to bend them, while wood ears in the genus Auricularia bend without breaking & feel ...well... kind of like an ear when you grab hold of them. :-)
It is recommended that you never ingest any fungus until you have 100% positively identified it as edible down to species. This means using a key to confirm all of its morphological features (in some cases this means using a microscope even!) &/or asking your local expert mycologist(s) for assistance.

I looked up Peziza, and that's probably what these are. They're definitely growing in soil, don't have that ear shape, and are a bit brittle.

Peziza badia is edible, and just looking at pictures these seem closest to that species. The species all look pretty similar, though, and I'm not going to track down a microscope.

Mystery Peziza it is.

Thanks, Mike!

Mike said, "Another way to tell the difference between these two genera is that Pezizas are brittle & crack & break when you try to bend them, while wood ears in the genus Auricularia bend without breaking & feel ...well... kind of like an ear when you grab hold of them.

Do you know what genera these are in? Just curious?

Anne Miller wrote:

Mike said, "Another way to tell the difference between these two genera is that Pezizas are brittle & crack & break when you try to bend them, while wood ears in the genus Auricularia bend without breaking & feel ...well... kind of like an ear when you grab hold of them.

Do you know what genera these are in? Just curious?

From the photos (cup facing towards the sky) & the description given (growing from soil & brittle) I am strongly leaning towards the genus Peziza.