Ive discovered a deforested area full of these

Hi , Im in The Amazon forest . Ive discovered a deforested área full of these:


, any idea of The scientific name ? Are they useful or edible?


Cheers

Maybe Schizophyllum commune? I am not sure—maybe someone else knows better.

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/schizophyllum_commune.html

I agree with M, those look like split-gill- Schizophyllum commune. This is a species complex that is found throughout the world. I've seen it on cherry trees and logs- it might even be parasitic on cherry and other fruit trees.  Although some people use this mushroom for food or medicine, it can be a human pathogen that can cause respiratory illness if the spores are inhaled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophyllum_commune

I advise caution- in fact, I would not bring any specimens indoors or near your garden or orchard.

This mushroom has been a great discovery for me. Yesterday I picked a bag of these mushrooms and made myself a miso soup with them. And wow. Really good. Its texture is like meat. It replaces meat very well and also when you eat it, you feel something substantial in your stomach. Plus, they can be dried and then rehydrated.

Thanks

I hope you're OK Ronaldo, that info in the video is why I do NOT eat this species and advised caution! Yikes!

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-018-3187-5

Case presentation
A 25-year-old female with a two-year history of erythema, papules, nodules, and scales on her sole of left foot was presented to our outpatient center. Samples were obtained by the scraping of lesion and for light microscopy. Hyphae were observed by microscopic examination. We carried out a skin tissue biopsy, which showed multiple granulomatous nodules. Biopsy specimens were also inoculated onto media. After being cultured on SDA at 27 °C for 7 days, spreading-woolly-white colonies grew on the inoculation sites of media containing chloramphenicol only and there,s no other colonies grew. S. commune was identified by morphology methods, biochemical tests, and PCR sequencing. Pathological findings also aided in diagnosing cutaneous fungal granuloma. Oral itraconazole was applied. After 1 month of therapy, rashes on her left foot and pain were improved.

These mushrooms have been consumed for thousands of years. And only a few cases of infection by this fungus have been documented in people with a compromised immune system. I don't think it's much of a problem for healthy people. In fact, I'm going to start growing this fungus at home. It has a lot of potential.

I wonder if eating them might be a good way not to get infected? Most mushrooms are supposed to be good for the immune system. Maybe it’s like ragweed—when ragweed season came around I thought, “the cure is often close to the source” and tried eating ragweed leaves to avoid hay fever. And I think it worked.

He did say that many of them did not have a compromised immune system necessarily, but other health issues.