What a year for mushrooms! These were by the side of the road yesterday. Don’t know what they are but I’m don’t believe they’re inedible.
I’ve been gathering candy caps in the woods and putting them on a kitchen shelf in bamboo baskets to dry. The whole rooms smells like maple syrup (which is what candy caps smell like when dry).
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Probably: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_olearius
Actually I don't think it's Omphalotus_olearius (nickname Jack o'Lantern). I found some of the latter on New Year's day and they look quite a bit like chanterelles once you remove them from the stump. Seriously poisonous. These shown here look pretty different in real life.
Are they less orange than the picture looks?
Second guess would be weatherbeaten honey mushrooms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_fungus
But it's hard to say without holding them in hand.
Jacks were my first guess too.
I the cold weather things look different,I think it is Omphalotus. Gymnopilus s. would have some large specimen.
Tomas