#boletes

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Suillus granulatus (Weeping bolete)

[snototter]

A two colored bolete (Baorangia bicolor) in Nassau County, New York

by Alex Roukis

[oliviarosaline]

Reddish brown bitter bolete

Tylopilus rubrobrunneus

Aug. 14th, 2023

St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[mushroomgay]

Cambridge, UK, May 2023

Iodine bolete (Hemileccinum impolitum)

This chunky boy can be recognised by their bright yellow pores which, along with their flesh, do not immediately change colour when cut (although they may take on a pink or blue tinge after a an hour or so), and their chemical-ey smell, reminiscent of iodine. 

They are edible but not sought after. I ate this one - it was mildly unpleasant! 

[balkanradfem]

So, I had a bit of a soup accident.

I went to the forest to look if there's any mushrooms. It's been the rainiest spring we have ever seen, and I figured this means some mushrooms might have decided to spring up; at first I didn't find any, but then I stumbled on these guys right here!

I was extremely pleased, felt super proud for making the assumption and then it working out, and my garden is not yet producing a lot of food, so this was perfect to fill up my diet. I decided to make a soup! Altogether I found 4 mushrooms, they were all growing close to each other:

They looked very good cut up too, I took a picture of that as well:

Some of them stained slightly pink when I cut them, but I didn't worry about it too much, some species stained blue and it was okay, I haven't seen the pink stain before but they were supposed to stain black in my mind, and maybe pink was just a hue before it got to black. So, I made a soup, blended it, tried it, and… it was disgusting.

Absolutely inedible, horrid, awful, treacherous soup. Upset and confused, I ate a few spoonfuls to see if it's poison. I didn't end up feeling sick or vomiting later, so I concluded it's not poisonous, but it was still, completely inedible due to its horrid taste. I had to throw it away, which is extremely rare for me to do.

So what went wrong? I am lucky to have a mushroom expert as a friend so I asked her, and showed her the pictures. She explained there was in fact, a bad bolete mushroom, called 'bitter bolete', and it looks like a nice good bolete, but, the sponge is slightly pink, and it tastes horrible. It's not even poisonous, it just tastes bad! And ruins the taste of everything it's in. Which is exactly what happened to me. I had never run into the bitter bolete, so I had no idea this could even happen. I should not have ignored the pink stain!

I bet you all thought I was going to getting poisoned at the start of this post, but no, it is not the poisoning, I just wasted some mushrooms. It happens! I feel good about the situation because after this I will Never ignore a pink stain, and will understand that it is the death of a soup if I put that in.

I ended up eating bread all day that day, because I had no backup plan for lunch, but the next day I went to my garden and made an actual garden soup! More will be revealed in my next post.

[tricornonthecob]

Some fun mushies and lichens from the past two days. Might have some king boletes!

[aldercaps]

it's bolete time lads

[orofeaiel]

Yesterday's Shroomies!

Silvery-Violet Corts | HUGE Manzanita Bolete

Gassy Webcaps | Cortinarius Sect. Callochroi

Another Gassy Webcap | Admiral Bolete

[hiddenstashart]

[pickleweed2]

Suillus umbonatus, found in the dark understory of a large Evergreen Huckleberry mat in a Shore Pine/Wax Myrtle/Sitka Spruce dune forest

Samoa Dunes, California

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[oliviarosaline]

Some kind of bolete mushroom

Boletales

This bolete featured unusually large, bright yellow pores.

There are over 150 described bolete species in the Midwestern United States alone, so sometimes it's a challenge to narrow them down to an exact species ID. It's not an ash tree bolete. I found this one while doing field research in an old growth forest near the Meramec River near swamp white oak, pin oak, cottonwood, silver maple, green ash, persimmon, and hackberry trees. I'm not sure which tree it was associated with.

Aug. 18th, 2023

Arnold, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[mushroomgay]

Abernethy Forest, Scotland, August 2023

Bitter Beech Bolete (Boletus calopus)

These striking fungi are not toxic but, as the name implies, are extremely bitter and unpleasant tasting. They are also one of the fun boletes that bruises blue when cut open, but as I only saw one I didn't want to pick it just for my own entertainment!

[ceephorsshitshow]

Some mushroom finds while I was picking my boletes!

Another nice Blushing Amanita

Look at the fat stem on this russula!

A wee old man (of the woods). I seeded this area with spores a few years ago so I'm glad to see them in my patch.

And finally the prize! We have b. Variipes! The variable-stem bolete, a choice edible! The spores are going right into my porcini patch. They are mild yet delicious

[convexly]

Mycological Rainbow by Jillian Kern

[aldercaps]

Some little guys, xerocomellus, hypholomas etc