These beautiful mushrooms are likely Parasol Mushrooms or Macrolepiota procera or Lepiota procera. I find that mushrooms are very difficult to identify and if you cannot distinguish between species the results can be fatal. I have never tried eating a wild mushroom for that reason. Here is an excerpt from a poem by Gershon Hepner. See Mushrooms - Poem by Gershon Hepner.
They only fruit when they are sure
that they are bound to die,
and only threat of death will lure
most mushrooms to your pie.
They love to grow where there’s manure,
for fungi all rely
on what's excrescent and impure
to help them multiply.
gershon hepner
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