Ferns, Mushrooms, Fungi and Mosses: Mushroom ID please, 5 by P_Edens

P_Edens wrote:
Any chance that I have enough photos to be able to identify this mushroom? I found several of them after several days of rain.

I took the photos yesterday about 70 miles north of Houston in a wooded area with mostly pine and some oak, hackberry, yaupon, hickory and a few other tree types.

The small ones just looked like little grape sized tomatoes sticking out of the ground. The larger ones were about 6 inches tall. The stems were about 1/2 inch in diameter. They had a very large sponge-like bottom section. They were a very bright red color on top and light yellow underneath. The gills were very close together.

Any help in identification is much appreciated.

Patti