Identifying edible mushrooms - Agaricus arvensis (Horse mushroom) 

Thank you so much for this! The mushrooms I found this morning and were 99% sure we're good to eat had yellow stems when I cut them in half. You have saved me a stomach ache.

Thank you for taking the time to make this post. I found my first horse mushroom today. You gave me the name and some important info. I'm eating them raw.

Thank you for doing this video. These are very common in the US, and a likely one for people to find in their yard. Laying your dead leaves or straw over an area over time will create a rich enough soil over time to be conducive to these mushrooms and also for cultivating the related Portabella (Agaricus bisporus) that we find ubiquitous at any grocery store.

Thank you very much for sharing this great video of this interesting species. I have enjoyed watching the video. Thanks againg. Greetings. Manuel

People underestimate field mushrooms because they are cultivated, but that doesn't mean they are bad mushrooms. In fact they are some of the best mushrooms. Are plerotus or pioppini mushrooms bad because they are cultivated? Not even a little.

Interesting you didn't do a stain test. There are more morphological features to consider for families of mushrooms

Probably best to eat these fried in a pan. Boiled they smell and the mushroomy taste is too much . Boiled with pasta is pretty good. But the juice boiled by itself is too strong. Theres alot of confusion with these and yellow stainers im beginning to question if theres actually any difference. I tried stainers and theyre about just the same as these. Dont eat them raw.

I've just identified my first mushroom thanks to u ..only thing is a slug has eaten chunks out of itso I've slung it back I the garden 😢

Love your work!

Wonderful ID video 👍🏼

Ok but some get dark later on or brown on top Those are still edible aren’t they? Same like portabello they come brown on top!?

I think these are meadow mushrooms in the US, good eating.

Great video! 👌🏻

Looks super similar to the destroying angel, not a beginner mushroom.

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What is it if it does have a bulb at the base?

That’s so cool🤩

I picked three of these mushrooms in a field in a local park. Brown to dark brown gills. Nice edible smell coming from them. One of them the cap was not opened yet. But it was quite big. It smelled nice like fresh edible mushroom. And so I was tempted to eat some of it raw, uncooked. I ate some of it as I have done in the past with store bought mushrooms. It tasted quite nice. Like chicken or turkey flavouring and mid spicy hot sensation in my throat a minute or two afterwards. And so I decided to eat the rest of that unopened cup mushroom. About one hour later I began to feel seasick, and two hours later I emptied the contents of my stomach in a plastic bag. 🤮 I am feeling better now after vomiting and drinking about one litre of water to rinse the stomach. I will cook the rest of the mushrooms I picked from the same cluster, and have some just to see if cooking them will prevent me from vomiting them out. 🤔

The ones I picked have all the features of the horse mushroom but they do stain yellow. But they smell great and earthy. No bad smell. I guess they are yellow strainers. Too bad but they smell so good.

I found so much of these, was scared to eat them because were I’m at there way better edibles