Sadly, it was just some well-aged Russula.
I get ya, I've dropped several mushrooms because a surprise slug on the bottom was a little too close to my finger.
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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.
Species is the olive shaggy parasol Chlorophyllum olivieri.
I like how they look like cake pops before they open up
From below you can really see the nice contrast between the pale gills and blue everywhere else
This mushroom is an Entoloma in the subgenus Leptonia, probably something like Entoloma subeuchroum or Leptonia subeuchroa if they decide to split Leptonia into its own genus as mycologists have been discussing.
Host is a crack-cap bolete (Xerocomellus diffractus). The mold is either Hypomyces chrysospermus or Hypomyces microspermus, you can only tell them apart under a microscope.
These are highly prized for dying fabrics. They tend to turn all black as they get older which has led to them being given another name: "the bear poop fungus" because a few too many dyers have gotten their hands unspeakably dirty in eagerness to reach for what they thought was this mushroom.
I don't dye fabric myself but I was able to give this one away to a friend who can put it to good use.
Sadly, only very rotten one on the left was. The other two are Cortinarius sp. with nearly identical caps.
Underside:
These are highly variable, they're often brown on top with a yellow stem. I was doubting my initial ID, thinking they might be Chrysomphalina aurantiaca because the color was so off so I took them to my mycology club and had it confirmed.
The Pacific Northwest Craterellus was just called by the European species name "C. tubaeformis" for a long time but it's not the same species, "C. neotubaeforumis" is a name that's been proposed but not yet formalized.
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.