Tasty crown-tipped coral mushrooms & Vivid boletes: Flaming-gold, violet-gray & scarlet-blue

The crown-tipped coral mushroom (Artomyces pyxidatus) is a tasty mushroom with an ivory-colored fruiting body that's robust and branchy. Crown-tipped corals grow on wood, making them easy to distinguish from other coral-shaped mushrooms in genera like Ramaria and Phaeoclavulina.
I also discuss some beautiful boletes that are common in the South:
1. Flaming-gold bolete (Aureoboletus auriflammeus)
2. Violet-gray bolete (Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus)
3. Red-pored, blue-black staining mushroom in the Neoboletus genus
Last, I show off preposterously large and stinky Amanita mushrooms called pinecone Lepidellas (Amanita ravenelii).

[@wildpinto3291]

I like to pickle the crown- tipped corals, but I need to get a little educated on the boletes.

[@GypsyTinker2012]

Thank you, Anna! ❤

[@dccrens]

Anna, does the Aureoboletus auriflammeus stain your hands yellow? Or is that anothed yellow bolete that stains you hands yellow.

[@trimbaker1893]

Anna!, I have a mystery for you! I am so glad to see you here. I have , here near Cashiers North Carolina, some kind of weird liquidy gel kind of thing growing on the hilside behind my cabin. These things look like little eggs with no shells. orangey red "yolk" structure covered in a clear gel and they have been unchanged for over a week. They would be the size of quail eggs, minus the shell. What the heck are they, I know you know. : ) I sure wish you lived down the road from me up here and we could find stuff like this on a hike... : ) I look forward to your thoughts, George.

[@dccrens]

Anna, could the Neoboletus sp also be Boletus vermiculosoides?

[@ChristopherBonis]

Last year, I encountered the violet coral fungus (Clavaria zollinger), among the most beautiful mushrooms I’ve ever come across and my first to hold a ’vulnerable’ conservation status by the IUCN.

[@UncleBildo]

I suffer mushroom envy. I'm in the Pacific Northwest, but in the high desert part! Puffballs are one of the only edible ones we get that I recognize, tho occasionally will see a Shaggy Mane. Grew up Shaggy Mane hunting every Fall, our cluster of friends and family would do a big mushroom and grouse fry up. There are no doubt more mushrooms out there, but I don't know 'em! Would be handy to have someone of your expertise around to point out the good ones! Damn, now I want fried mushrooms.

[@DavidMarcotte-xx1nw]

Great video Anna! Entertaining and funny. And I'm trying to learn more on coral mushrooms so very handy. Thank you.