I've never seen crimini mushrooms but I have seen pearl oyster and chicken of the woods mushrooms growing wild in Florida.

Crimini mushrooms are actually baby portabellas.

Baby portabellas?? OH, MY! must take another look as soon as it's light out.

tiameer, where would one find pearl oyster or chicken of the woods mushrooms? I stopped hunting (ie; tramping through the woods) years ago.

Well, whatever they were, they're all brown and beat up today. Sassy probably stomped on them in persuit of a lizard.

Probably how they got their name, Oh crimini! "they're all brown and beat up today."

Lou