Bricktop Plug Spawn - (Hypholoma lateritium)

Bricktop Mushrooms (Hypholoma lateritium) are an edible species, very aggressive and prolific, sometimes evicting other mushrooms out of their patches to set up camp.

I have seen Bricktops take over our mulch walking trail turning it into a orange-reddish carpet with wall to wall mushrooms in the winter, such a heavy fruiter! This mushroom is a little on the difficult side to ID, so make sure you can distinguish between the two in this genus before eating and send us some photos to confirm!