Great photos, love days like these!

That’s pretty interesting, I’ll need to pay closer attention to how things come out

I definitely did but it had just rained and the colours were pretty bright in person (esp. the Cladonia).

I don’t think they’re toxic but also probably not work eating because of their size/texture

I was so stoked to see such a nice flush of these guys!

There a couple in my area so may do that.

Thanks, I guess I’ve read that some are slower to bleed, maybe it can just seem that way depending on how much a particular species tends to bleed.

I’m not even totally sure its a mutation and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of consensus on what it is or what causes it. It happens in cultivation and the wild, I believe its common to see chanterelles with this type of growth. I’ve tried to look it up and the reason that is stated most often is that it’s due to pollutants, specifically petroleum contamination. I’ve never had anyone give any evidence for this, though. I do recall reading this, it states that rosecomb is the result of endogenous genetic instability but didn’t want to pay to read the whole thing.