Help Me ID this Mushroom!

I found these big brown mushrooms growing out of a log that had been inoculated with edible mushroom spores about 2 years ago...
only problem is, i wasn't the one who stuck the spores in there and I have no idea which types of mushrooms they might be.... or if they are from the spores at all. The logs were already here at the Luck Cabin when i moved in.

Can anyone help me figure out, if this is an edible mushroom?
here are some other viewpoints... side and underneath, showing the gills....
The brown color is very rich and healthy looking... these mushrooms are also really large and round - thick (but not as thick & heavy as a portabella).

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Mushroom-splosion! Help me ID

These are just stunning! Mushrooms suddenly pop their beauty out from the wet forest floor, pressing up through rotten leaves, and never last very long... that kind of whimsical and short life span is exactly why so many people become fascinated by them. At least, that is part of what draws me in. Curly, smooth, colorful, half melted, looking like seashells, looking like biggie sized burger buns ----- can anyone tell me which kind of mushrooms these are? I would love to add in the labels if someone is able to help me ID them!

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"Stinky Dog Claw" Mushroom (red, white and brown)

(Note: The following post is not intended for kids, cause I am gonna go off about how this thing really smells! If you haven't told your children about the other 'birds and bees' yet, don't let this be the first sex ed lesson they have...)

Walking in the woods this week has been a mushroom explosion - tons of rain, cool nights dipping into the 60's and soon 50's...and rains from last year created a wet environment perfect for spawning off more variety of mushrooms then I have ever seen. Or smelled.

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Yeah, that's right... while exploring the rainbow of fungi bursting from the forest floor I suddenly smelled something. Something almost familiar, but kinda sick too....... I looked around suspiciously, including at the person I was hiking with - then decided to announce the problem... "Something smells like cum! Do you smell it?!!" After getting a definitive "no", I looked around and said "maybe there is one of those trees here, you know, the cum trees?" Another look around and a "no".... I was just standing there inhaling over and over trying to figure it out.

About 10 feet from where we had been standing, there was this mushroom... I didn't have my camera on me and had to come back the next day to take the photos. When we originally found the funguy, it was stiff, erect and stinking... i put my face down by it and it stained the inside of my nose with a horrid smell, that was nothing short of cum on a dirty dick, on a man sleeping in a dumpster in a pile of sugar. I looked the creepy mushroom up online, and they politely say the smell is terrible, like "rotten meat" - I think that is code for man meat.

Of course, when i went back today to take pictures of this magnificent specimen, it was flaccid. but the manly smell was no less. I did notice though another 15 feet away a rotten dead animal smell....

could there be more stinky poop fingers??

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FYI: This type of mushroom is known as a "stink horn" and this variety in particular also goes by the name "elegant dog stinkhorn". Read more about them & other American Mushrooms HERE.

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Purple, Green and Gold Mushrooms

Like the colors of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, I have been finding the most vivid amazing mushrooms this year! These are simply for ya' viewing pleasure... but if any of ya'll can actually identify them that would be awesome!

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White Rose Bud Shaped Mushroom

Under some mountain laurel, popping out the wet forest floor were these white delicate flora - looking like albino rose buds. At first I wondered if it was some strange plant, a plant with no color, something from a fantasy world crossing over into my world.
I had accidently trampled one of the flower shaped heads off - and got to look at the very center....

My friend Mark (who's helping me build my donkey fence) was standing there with me, and said it was a type of mushroom! If I had been the first to discover this fungi I think I would have named it something really hardcore.... like the Angel Of Death. Or Tears Of Angels. White Lion? Have ya'll ever seen this?

Can anyone help me ID it.... i am hoping it's real name is as good as my hair band names!

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Fungus Amongus

The epic snow storm back in December left a scar of white snow blanketed across every inch of ground here for nearly a month - until big warm and welcomed rains began hitting the tin roof, and dissolving the snow from the mountain ridge line first, down to the ground a few days later. The birds were happy, the pig was happy, the giant bunny was happy, and I am ecstatic to finally have a chance to see life again! Even if most of it got mashed under the weight of the snow. Yesterday I found a few spots of mushrooms and fungus actually growing, because the weather warmed up to more of a fall or spring temperature - and between the snow melting and the rain falling there was more then enough moisture to make the spores come alive!
These top three pics are all on an apple tree that was half dead, and then cracked in half and fell down during the winter hell weather. The branches and dead limb are going to make good kindling and fire starting wood. :)
This pink mushroom below was growing out the ground up in the woods. It was the only one I saw but I bet there is more!
Behind me in this next pic is something I LOVE about Big Sandy Mush - rocks will be covered in thick piles of green moss along streams, some so thick it's like nature's very own soft carpet. I have found gigantic rocks completely covered in it in the sun, perfect to lay down on and rest comfortably on the cushy pad of green. There is moss all over western north carolina, but this area seems to be the most abundant I have ever seen - giving it a magical, jungle feel. Even during the winter! I wonder if the cleaner an area the healthier the moss?
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Checking The Fenceline

I have a good strong feeling the donkey I am looking for (to ride on) is going to appear very soon - and so it's time to start the more serious forms of preparation for it's long term stay. Much of the 17 acres I live on has fenceline because the bordering properties raise cattle and keep it all in check...but way up the steep mountain where no cows go was a mystery as to whether the fence was still there. Me and Bort started out our fence walk by crossing over the barbed wire into a field full of wildflowers and butterflies, until we reached the electric fence at the end of the cow area, and crawled underneath over to the WILD side. Up in the woods the fence quickly disintegrated into nothing, and so did our goal... we got distracted by adventure.
Fantastic wildflowers hide on the highest and roughest parts of the climb - much of the hill was like climbing a wall made of mud. We had to walk on the sides of our feet and dig a hole for each step...which is why I kept telling Bort to go first so I could use all his footprints instead of making my own. :)
Apparently mushrooms really like spring and fall - and since fall is upon us there was an explosion of FUNgi. It felt so very SUper MArio BroThers, I thought maybe I could bounce on some of these and get extra lives.
We then found this perfectly shaped mound of dirt that looked like it was made by humans - which of course made me go into imaginative guesses about bones being buried in it, giant ants from outer space, pagan rituals, a native american look out....but at the top it was just a tree had fallen down and pulled up that chunk of the earth with it.Ok so with my already out of control imagination, I find this BLOB of fleshiness on the ground at the bottom of the mud mound (see below) - giggling like pure jello with a leaf stuck in it making it look like a bat wing had been ripped off ... Does anyone know what could make a blob like that in the woods? Or is it a sliver of flesh?The real beauty of a steep hill, is people rarely go on it and the trees are bigger, the plants have more variety, everything is very healthy and diverse. There were more huge trees in this section of the woods then anywhere else on the property, and as you can see I was dorking out at the bottom of this one...I am sparing ya'll the pic where I actually hugged the thing and think I may have become an official hippy.
We tried going back out through a gully of jewelweed flowers which quickly became a gully of stinging nettles!!! There was no way out of the gully except going through the nettle war zone we were in - there was alot of falling down, sliding on steep mud and rocks and accidental grabbing of the stinging nettles - which led to alot of rubbing our arms & hands with jewelweed to soothe the sting. It hurt but I found it comical and laughed (and yelped) most the way down till we diverted out finally off to the side. Diversions always bring more neat discoveries...
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Fungus And Screamin' Trees

I feel like this picture of me at the rock is a pretty good still shot of everything that has been going through my mind as of recently. There's no words to put my finger onto my personal feelings exactly - but maybe there is a general search for a more solid direction, searching right out into the wilderness. The way most people my age feel when they put on wedding rings, have babies and buy their first home. Somehow what I search for will need to be different, whether I chose it exactly or not.
When I was overlooking this rock the other day I started to hear screaming. Alot of screaming - the first sounds were startling, the second un-nerving, and the third was something borderlining the fear of death. It had to be a small bird of prey, crow or rabbit in desperate need...and I headed out along the trail to find it. What I found along the way of death screams were alot of beautiful fungus...
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This first one was even blacker then in the picture- a dark dirt like disguise.
This next mushroom was bright red and soooo micro tiny in the ground... freakin' neato.
And one of my new favorites is this stuff that looks like coral growing on land instead of underwater. :)
I looked for a long time, following the injured and upset animal's cries - I even went home and got a snack and came back again. As much as it wanted help, it didn't want it from me personally and was evading my every step with a perfectly hidden agenda of it's own. Sometimes even though I know I can not be of any help and that nature knows what it's doing, I still can not help my own human nature by offering some kind of service. There's a balance that can be achieved by humans, where we can be care givers and not just destroyers (and sometimes one aids the other) - I realize we are not entirely out of place in the wild. It's like we've just forgotten what to do.
I never found the scream's origin, it felt like they were coming from the trees themselves, and everytime i got to one tree the next one would scream for help. Dramatic?! Yeah, whateva'...
at the very end I found fresh bunny poop and realized what it was and all was silent.
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