Unless someone immediately recognises it you need to provide a lot of info for a reasonable shot at identification.
Is it growing on soil or wood? is it growing on buried roots, and if so what tree? Pick one, remove the cap and look at the gills - are they widely spaced or close together?what colour are they? What colour do they go when old? Put the cap on a sheet of white paper and next day see what colour the spores are that will have made a pattern on the paper. Cut a cap in half and see how the gills are attached ot the stem - do they run down it a little way, is there a gap between them and the stem or do they simply join the stem at more or less a right angle?
Is there a small ragged ring round the top of the stem from when the cap opened? Are the gills widely spaced or close together? Is the stem tough or brittle?

Do you want to know badlly enough to answer all these questions? Lol...

Do you have a dead stump or wood left in the ground in the immediate area? It could be 'sulphur tuft' which grows on wood, is very common, is harmless and varies in appearance.

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But it also looks suspiciously like honey fungus, and as one of the toadstools is seen with orange-pink gills I'd be more wary. Like sulphur tuft the fruiting bodies look similar but do vary in appearance. It is a serious problem as it spreads to other plants and kills them. One way you can tell is to dig up around and under the clump of toadstools and look for black 'bootlace' strands emerging from them, but they are not always easy to spot.

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my first thought is honey fungus too, but there are several species of HF and not all are rampant killers, some wait quietly for the diseased and dying then infect and finish them off. that's the one I have and it doesn't have the characteristic 'bootlaces'. nor does it attack the herbaceous perennials.
look at the RHS website on HF. very useful and they also list resistant plants too.

from a recycling of nutrients point the fungi are all friends as with out them many nutrients wouldn't be released back into the soil. we would be covered in dead non decaying material. ;)

I thought that possible too but didn't want to put the frighteners on without being sure! But I can't see any signs of small scales on any of the caps.
Bendipa where can you see one with orange gills? I reckon its more likely to be sulphur tuft than honey fungus.

A good indication of which it is - look at the underneath of the cap of a youngish one. If the gills are yellow its the sulphur tuft and if white its the honey fungus.

The likelihood of its being honey fungus or not is dependent on when you took this photograph - the mushrooms associated with honey fungus appear in September, whereas sulphur tuft mushrooms appear randomly anytime, though usually between spring and autumn.

Steragram. I thought the cap slightly to the right and below centre of photo looked like it had been turned over exposing the gills but on further examination I realise it is the top of a cap like the others. There's another cap with a cream margin lying on top of it which fooled me to begin with as it looked like a stalk at first glance.

"Friend or Foe?" Do you mean to eat? I wouldn't nor let your pets near it. It's good in the sense that things like to grow in your garden. You have good growing soil for anything.

Bendipa I wondered if that's what you meant - fooled me too at first.

Photo was taken on 18th January, there used to be conifer trees there but had all the tree stumps ground out, maybe a little bit left - I can't tell. What I wanted to know is should I just remove it to be on the safe side or just leave it be? I really don't want to dissect it etc...

If it is 'sulphur tuft' which is a harmless and common fungus which lives on dead wood, you can leave it to do its job. There are probably some woody tree roots left in the ground from the stump, and the fungus is breaking those down.

At first I thought it might be 'honey fungus' which can look similar to sulphur tuft' and is a serious parasite and danger to healthy shrubs and herbaceous plants. But I don't think it is that fungus now.

No need to dissect it - just check the gill colour to be sure. Panic over!

I would just leave it alone. Surely you have better things to do with your time. It's innocuous and will be gone as quickly as it came.

Better things to do with your time Paul? Surely finding out more about the things growing around you is a good use of time? Fungi are amazing things. They aren't even included in the plant kingdom but have one all of their own.

You are totally missing the boat Stera. No need to explain what fungi is. I'm only saying this isn't anything to be alarmed about, neither friend nor foe.

Leave 'em alone, as the others say, unless you really hate the look of them. They'll disappear, but the mycelium will still be present under the soil, and they will reappear when they feel like it. If you don't like the look of them, you can twist them off with rubber gloves and pop them in a plastic bag or whatever. Sulphur tuft are toxic to eat, but honey fungus is not, just as a point of interest...

Wasn't trying to explain what fungi are Paul, ust trying to share my fascination with them. I'm usually at the last minute for everything but have not so far missed a boat...new experiences all the time, lol.

Politely done, Steragram, which is more than I would have been - that's why I'm keeping quiet, though I'm having to sit on my fingers so I don't type something...

Well sat Bamboo....my first experience of that sort of comment, which says a lot as I've been here while.

Bathgate, can I just say something - you said, in an earlier response 'Surely you have better things to do with your time'. There is no way anyone can misinterpret that other than a jibing remark, apparently ridiculing or aiming contempt at anyone who's interested in precisely what type of fungi is being shown here. It was unnecessary and I wonder if you realise how often you say things like that in a thread, and then point the finger at someone else if you're picked up on your remarks, saying things like 'you are totally missing the boat', somehow trying to suggest that what you said was perfectly reasonable. It isn't, really, and I for one would prefer you to think about how you answer people and whether what you're saying is entirely good humoured or even useful.

I'd just add, Amsterdam, been reading up on sulphur tuft - but there's another one that's very similar and which occurs specifically on conifers, called, unsurprisingly, Conifer Tuft, so maybe that's what these are, given its conifer roots they're feeding on. Not that it matters really, its just a point of interest.

Please can we let it go at that now? I'd hate it to develop further as it upsets other members.

Bamboo - I just don't get why you make yourself the focal point of every thread you comment on. THIS ISN'T ALL ABOUT YOU!! This is not your thread and my comments aren't directed at you or Stera (that's how she missed the boat) . I was simply agreeing with Amsterdam's comment on 1/21. If you want to pull apart mushrooms, go have a field day. I have better things to do with my time.

Hmm... blaming is your way of dealing with any hint of criticism, Bathgate, its such a shame, because this is generally an harmonious place, apart from the odd occasion, and I've seen you being generally harmonious a lot of the time too. The original ' surely you have better things to do...' and my criticism of it still stands, and I say this here not on my own behalf, but on other people's. And now I will leave you to it, I gave it a shot....

it's not about you! I hope you feel better now. :)

It's no skin off my nose either way, Bathgate, I feel just the same now as I did before this thread, which is okay, well as far as is possible at my age. Although I'm feeling I should point out that Steragram is not, in fact, my 'girlfriend'... for one thing, its been a very long time since either of us was a girl, although I do vaguely remember being one years ago..

Well said. Now...I hope you are feeling better. What about the mushrooms?