[aigel]

What's the upside of eating them vs. the risk?

Not sure if there was anyone in the world who I'd trust to tell me these are ok to eat. Certainly not someone on the interwebs! The spores may have come from your mulch and a completely different area or even continent!

Every year in Europe and other places with significant immigration there are horror stories of immigrants finding a familiar mushroom in the new country's woods and filling up on them. Only to kill their families because they fell for a poisonous lookalike that only exists in their new country.

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