Also “sub-”, at least in mycological names.

The other day, I read that there’s a mushroom called “Agaricus subsubensis” and I felt like I was being trolled.

It allows you to keep your arms shoulder-width apart which makes it easier to avoid hunching.

If wish to learn how to forage for mushrooms, join a local mycology club and go out with them. They can identify mushrooms for you and teach you how to do so yourself. They can also recommend good local field guides, I see a few folks in this thread recommending All that the rain promises and More which is a reputable guide but it’s also spectacularly out of date and only applicable to Western North America.

It’s important to know what you’re doing but mushroom identification is not nearly as difficult as some of the comments here make it out to be. There are far fewer deadly mushrooms out there than most people think and it’s fairly easy to familiarize yourself with all the deadly species in your area so you can avoid them.

Nothing wrong with picking a mushroom to ID at home or at an ID clinic run by your local mycology club. You should individually inspect each specimen as you’re cleaning them anyway so you can throw out any which might be going bad, chock full of bugs, or misidentified.

When in doubt, throw it out.

It’s just the code that’s not under copyright, so if someone leaked it you could legally copy and distribute any parts which are AI generated but it wouldn’t invalidate copyright on the official binaries.

If all the code were AI generated (or enough of it to be able to fill in the blanks), you might be able to make a case that it’s legal to build and distribute binaries, but why would you bother distributing that slop?

It’s really common give up on Russula because of how impossible they are to get to species but you can learn to get them to section/group which I personally find worthwhile. It helps if you enjoy eating them like I do, I spent a lot of time figuring out how to ID Russula olympiana and the other PNW xerampelina group species because of how much I like using them to make vegetarian fish broth.

The cap colors are often misleading as you noted but in many cases there are undertones you can learn to look for which are more consistent. For example, R. olympiana has this specific burgundy undertone mixed into whatever primary color the cap decided to be so I can usually tell before picking a Russula if it’s possible for it to be R. olympiana or not. R. olympiana, R. emetica, and R. americana can all be “red” but they actually can’t be the same shade of red if that makes sense.

I think that’s a “pruinose” cap covered in fine hairs which give it that frosted look. Compare to the R. murrillii group: https://www.alpental.com/psms/PNWMushrooms/PictorialKey/Russula.htm#MildDark

Armillaria sp. aka Honey mushrooms, they’re very aggressive so RIP to that tree. One of the world’s largest living organisms is an Armillaria that spans over 2000 acres in Oregon.

Coprinus, it means “of poop” because a lot of them grow on dung, though this one usually prefers well-fertilized soil (which may or may not have manure in it).

They’re more like nature’s Jell-O shots.

Developers don’t have unions so we often just get left out of the credits anyways.

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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 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.