I have no idea whether a human could safely eat the pictured mushroom.
Clearly, however, at least one other fauna species relishes this fungus.
In any event, from a purely human-centric perspective, “edibility” is merely one of an enormous number of relevant descriptors of fungi species’ actual or potential uses.
I do not know what had been eating this post’s hero.
I think a Southern brown bandicoot (known in WA as a “quenda”) would be the most likely “suspect”, but some birds – cockatoos or miners, especially – could also be “of interest”, as could pygmy possums.
Click here for an overview of the mind-boggling, ever-growing array of human interactions with fungi.
Wine connoisseurs/“nerds”/ “wankers” may or may not be happy to know that fictional “scientist” Sheldon Cooper spoke 100% plain truth – if a wine is neither adulterated nor oaked – when he described wine as “grape juice pre-digested by a fungus”.
Our species is only beginning to “discover” more than a very small percentage of the number of fungi species, let alone their myriad further “possibilities”.
One of the more arresting recent, novel deployments of fungi is in the design and manufacture of affordable electric guitars: enter the Mycocaster!