Kitty Bolles

We have an answer to our mystery. What we have found is a Brown Meadow Mushroom. They do not have a scientific name as of yet. They are of the same family as button mushrooms. Apparently they are quite prolific in my area this time of year. I had a friend that took me for a mushroom walk today. The heat,rain and then cooler temps is what sets them off. Truly there are scary stories about poisonous look alikes but these are very easy to identify once you know what you are looking for. They smell amazing. The poison varieties firstly smell just plain "off". I can't describe it but he showed me the difference. It's obvious even to a newby like myself. And to prove they were safe he ate them raw here in front of me. He's still alive and well and I'm fixing the spoils of our hunt for dinner tonight.
Thank you all for your concern to my wellbeing when I first posed the question.

Sincerely,
Kitty

Too funny! I'm not going to try it. I can see where the confusion was. I am so paranoid as I said before that I do not even forage. I just grow them. I do have a field guide and I was just hoping one of you could tell me what you think it may be and I'd do my own comparisons. There are non-poisonous mushrooms that are growing during the fall season under the conditions I'd described. Thank you all for being so concerned about my health.

Thanks for the reply Judith.Normally I wouldn't even pick it but my P.I.C saw it on his walk and thought it looked interesting. I never forage so it wouldn't have even crossed my mind or his to pick it except for the fact that we have been finding mushrooms all over our place this summer and they have been from what spawn we'd tossed out. I'm of the "trust God" mentality and I am just goofy enough to try this one but I just cut it up in little tiny bits and dropped it in a sterilized jar of wild bird seed spawn just to see if I can make more.I have smelled a couple not edible ones and they definitely smelled "off". This one smelled just like a morel or an oyster. We will see what comes of it.
Thanks again,
Kitty

I've been growing mushrooms on and off indoors for a couple of years.I am not a forager and have no clue what kind of mushroom this is.It was about 80 degrees here yesterday, we had a nice thunderstorm last night and this morning we found this on our walk. We do have some oyster mushrooms growing on a dying willow tree. I assume it was from spores from my hobby mushrooms. The mushrooms we have had spore here from is King Oyster(King Trumpet), multiple oyster mushrooms,a variety of different kinds of shiitake and wine caps.This mushroom smells just like a healthy woodland mushroom.Would love to take a spore print and cultivate it but if it's poisonous I'll skip it.
Any clues what it is? I am in Central Illinois.

Perfect! Absolutely what I was looking for. Thank you for your help.

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