Lobster Mushroom

Hypomyces lactifluorum

Lobster mushrooms smell strongly of seafood and are the result of a parasitic mushroom attacking a Russula brevipes

Cap

bright red-orange, often cracked or wavy-edged, with a firm, textured surface

deformed and very shallow

bright red-orange, snaps like chalk when fresh

white

Russula Brevipes

late Summer through Autumn