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Found in the red mulch along my house in upstate NY . Do mushrooms absorb some of the mulch dye? The mulch and the mushrooms are fairly close to the same color.

Hello again y'all! These guys I found are right outside my front door near plants that I grow behind a hedge. A year or so ago I spread primarily oak based shredded wood with leaves and all from a local company all under the hedge in question. This is the second or third round of these guys popping up albeit many other species as well. At first I assumed that they were likely inedible so I didn't take pics before this round. Researching online about FL edibles ran me into the honey mushrooms. Then I realized these look almost like what I saw online. In fact after seeing the honeys online I'm pretty sure over the years I've seen them many times just didn't know and wasn't actively hunting edibles yet. Some observations from the ones in the pics are cinnamon colored lightly darkish brown speckly on the caps. Though I don't have a pic of said spores or a print to show they spored crazy a week or two ago where these now exist but the others have rotted away already. The spores they dropped were super white and powdered the ground all around the previously existing specimens. Definitely pure white like corn starch on the ground around them. The new ones are definitely exactly the same as the last round or two. When picking the one for a gills shot the stem seemed rather fibrous for a mushroom and I believe I read honey mushroom stems are tough. Do I got some good mushies here???