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Seth. Your gilled mushroom looks to be macrolepiota rachodes. One pic , the one with the spindle shaped stems favors Lepiota americana ... if so it would be on
I posted my pics under seth's found mushrooms, they are the newest posts. You can see where the bottom of the mushroom turned colors when I touched it. I think
A portabello mushroom is a mature crimini, and a crimini is nothing more than Agaricus bisporus. Here is the scoop from WikiPedia: Agaricus bisporus is known