Thanks and I am overwhelmed by shiitake mushrooms now so I will not eat the ringless honey. I will have tons (seriously I can collect 100 lbs easily) of Armillaria gallica coming in early October. I tasted and liked it but I just have too many shiitakes to eat and my other family members are not big fan of wild mushrooms. 
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False morel. Toxic and can be deadly.
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False morel covers a lot of species. This one is in the genus Gyromitra.
These are inky caps, probably Coprinellus micaceus, one of the most common types.
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Thank you. Any suggestions for how to get rid of them? They must have been on some of the wood from the rounds of chips I got this spring and now theoretically theyâve been fed heavily. Two patches have come up against my vegetable gardens. Not ideal.
Those Mica caps (which are a type of ink cap) taste quite good if you go through the work of washing them, I eat them quite a lot.
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You canât and shouldnât want to get rid of the fungus in your woodchips. They are breaking down the chips and releasing nutrients your plants can use. In addition the white mycelium bodys of the mushrooms sequester water and protect the enviroment from drying out during dry spells.
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Theyâre in the walkways of my vegetable gardens with little kids and dogs tearing through so itâs less than ideal. I looked them up and seems there are some good and some poisonous? Only issue is they go gross and black the day after they appear, not sure I can time picking them to try.
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As already mentioned, these mushrooms are not poisonous and are beneficial to the garden. They are edible but, in my opinion, not very tasty. I donât bother harvesting them. If you donât like their appearance, removing them as soon as they appear will not hurt their useful mycelium; but they will keep coming up as long as there is sufficient moisture and fresh wood chips to colonize. There is no real need to do anything about them; their inky residue will disappear soon enough.
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While inky cap fungi are not poisonous, my research several years ago when they suddenly emerged from wet bales of hay indicated that poisoning can occur should the fungi be consumed along with alcohol.
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Some inky caps have problems when consumed with alcohol, but this species does not. Check it out on the Web.
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Thatâs what I had read as well. Sorry I didnât specify when it can be poisonous.
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