Contrary to popular belief, very few mushrooms (maybe 100 species out of 100,000) are actually toxic and most of the toxic ones are not deadly.  Most just don't taste very nice.  ID from a web image will be tentative at best but they don't look like the most famous toxic mushroom, the Death Cap.  They may, however, be a Destroying Angel, one of a group of about 20 similar species that are also deadly.

Those fruiting bodies are already releasing millions of spores each so, unless you are very lucky, the only way you will remove them entirely is by removing your yard entirely.  And, even then...

Composting them might work, even if they are poisonous, but most of the deadly toxins are not affected by the heat of cooking so I don't know.  Presumably there is some method of degeneration when the fungal body dies or the soil around the growth area would become more and more toxic.

If there is one thing I've learned of photographing mushrooms over the
years is to be careful with identifying.
There are many items to consider such as size, appearance of the cap,
stem, gills and spores as well as the location.
Pictures usually show insufficient information and ai apps therefore
fail in many instances.
I don't think you should bother about which way to dispose of these
mushrooms as you won't get rid of the underground mycelium anyway.

Henk

Op 20-7-2026 om 04:08 schreef John Sessoms:

These have come up in the SAME SPOT every time I've seen them.

I'm thinking pulling them up just after they sprout next time and let
them do their thing in the compost bin.

Maybe if I do the same thing every time they sprout it might eventually
discourage them from coming up in that spot.

Back at my old house I had marvelous compost bins - all my grass
cuttings, wood chips and appropriate food waste - whenever I'd turn it
I'd find earth worms (Lumbricus terrestris) ... HUGE earthworms 6 inch
(15.24cm) or longer and the compost made the richest, blackest "potting
soil" mix, better than anything you will find at the big box home
improvement stores.

Back there it was all deciduous trees (and my chipper/shredder was
working) so the compost decayed fairly rapidly.

Out here I don't really have any soil and the compost has a lot of pine
needles in it. They don't decay very rapidly ... good for mulch, but
slow to decay.

I need some ways to help the process along (and I need to get the
chipper/shredder working again). I'm hoping adding mushrooms to the
compost will help.

And I'd really like to have the "topsoil".

On 7/20/2026 3:32 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:

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