Whenever I see lawn mushrooms, I always assume they're Death Angel caps. They contain a bevy of chemicals that interfere with protein synthesis and subsequent cell death, starting with the liver.

Gosh are they pretty, though.

Needs some miniature ships around it being tossed about.

It looks like a golf ball on a tee. 432yds. par: 4, bring me a Callaway RAZR FIT Driver.

But, one good 'whack' and you would have mushroom spores all over the place XD

I'm not an expert, but I think the broken sac around the base of the mushroom suggests that this is in the amanita family; possibly a death cap or panther cap. Which is to say don't eat it, and wash your hands if you handle it.

This one is very young and it's really easy to make *deadly* mistakes with young specimens - one of the most common of fatal poisoning causes is taking a young (unopened) death cap for something else. From the shape, I am almost sure it's another of Amanita mushrooms, but it's hard to say until it opens. Looks like the same species as the big one I have commented on before, just young.

The problem is, many mushrooms can look very different depending on the region they grow; the color in particular can be very varied, so it can be something I know from my home turf but differently colored. Sometimes the only way to ID a mushroom is to look at its spores under a microscope. Not a death cap since these have no spots on the cap; this can be a panther cap, a fly agaric, the blusher (Amanita rubescens) or something similar; in this case the sure telltales are the "pouch" from which the stem grows, and the thick dots on the cap. I don't know enough about fungi to give you a secure ID.

It is definitely a capped mushroom and will have gills underneath the cap when it grows.