Eating them raw sounds gross (most mushrooms shouldn’t be eaten raw but jelly fungi are fine raw) but if you candy and dehydrate them, the texture is just like a gummy bear.

It looks like Hypholoma capnoides (conifer tuft) which is edible but it’s hard to say for sure.

Hypholoma fasiculare (sulfur tuft) can look similar at this stage of development and is somewhere between “bitter and indigestible” and “mildly toxic”.

I can identify these as Hypholoma sp. from the painting so great job.

I would guess you’re thinking of the white dapperling (Leucocoprinus leucothites). That one is supposed to be a pretty mediocre edible to begin with, absolutely not worth all the poisonous lookalikes it has.

I get ya, I’ve dropped several mushrooms because a surprise slug on the bottom was a little too close to my finger.

There’s other differences as well such as death caps having a ring on the stem and a thicker cap which lacks the striation you see on the paddy straw mushroom (Vovariella sp.) and the edible Amanitas (grisettes, cocorras, etc.).

They have deadly Amanitas in Asia too and they have many of the same features so Asian foragers should already know how to tell them apart.

A sudden uptick like this makes me think that AI photo ID apps may be to blame. They’re nortoriously bad at identifying mushrooms partially because it’s impossible to ID many mushrooms from a single photo which is unlikely to show all the features needed.

That’s an Amanita, not an Agaricus.

Mostly you want to wash your hands because mushrooms tend to be covered in dirt/leaves/duff.

Which Agaricus will kill you? I’m not aware of any in the PNW.

Edit: I think I remember having this conversation before, you’re using “Agaricus” to mean “all gilled mushrooms” like it’s the 18th century instead of what it actually means today.

I think neither of you have any idea what life as an adult will be like for you or what kind of adults you’ll end up being. That means you have no idea if the kind of adults you become will still belong together. You can stay committed to each other through this period while you find out without signing a legal document that’s expensive and emotionally painful to undo.

Having a family is great, but it’s not enough to define an entire person. You both would be happier knowing who you are aside from your family first.

Accountable in the sense that they need someone to say “my bad, I’ll go away now” and pick up their contractually negotiated giant sack with a dollar sign on their way out the door.

It’s an even older pre-internet meme, I heard it about Prince before Manson and I’ve heard from some older folks that they used to say the same thing about Rod Stewart.

Sort of, cremini and white button are at the same stage of growth, the white ones are a sort of albino strain that doesn’t develop the brown scales. Having a “bald version” and a “scaly version” is actually relatively common amongst Agaricus species for some reason.

I found and ate some grey knights just the other day but I’d need better photos to be able to confirm/de-confirm your ID here.

Start with an oyster grow kit, oysters are pretty foolproof because of how aggressive they are.

Don’t get golden oysters, those are too aggressive and are escaping and becoming invasive.

Amazing photo!

Looks Gloeophyllum sepiarium the “rusty gilled polypore” or “conifer mazegill”.

That’s why Frank Grimes called it “a palace”.

No need to worry about your herbs, it’s just a mushroom growing on your potting soil and helping to break it down which may actually make nutrients more available for your plants.

Those photos are pretty blown out but from your description I bet the mushroom is the flowerpot parasol Leucocoprinus birnbaumi. They’re pretty harmless though you shouldn’t eat them or anything.