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".
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.
It's from from "Scott Pilgrim takes off" which sort of a sequel to the Scott Pilgrim movie (it's complicated) but there's not much WLW in the series beyond this scene and an allusion to
minor spoiler
Knives and Kim having a vibe without actually having them hook up like they did in the comic
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.
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.