latin name: Xerocomellus chrysenteron
I went on my first mushroom-focused forest walk of the year today, and found a bunch of cool stuff! I'll be posting it through the week, and then next week i'll head out to the forest and do it all over again.
This is the red-cracked bolete (I THINK! I AM NOT 100% ON PRACTICALLY ANY OF MY IDENTIFICATIONS!) If you look up this mushroom, you'll find similar-looking pictures except the mushroom is much larger and has visible cracks and roughness across its cap. There were TONS of those near where i took these pictures, but I decided to snap only the young, pretty specemins because beauty is more important than accuracy. Anyway these mushrooms are edible, but people tend not to like them because they get squishy when they mature. Also, they mainly grow near water so they can get suuuper squishy. If you find one with good texture, they apparantly taste almost identical to the penny bun, a.k.a. the cep. I found at least 50 of these, mostly old and falling apart, in a very shaded area right next to a lake. Perfect mushroom conditions, so not that surprising to see a huge outbreak.
I forgot I took these, so here you go!