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Post by aaron on Aug 3, 2011 8:33:49 GMT -6
This morning I hiked to a spot where I picked many lbs of chants and 2 or 3 lbs of trumpets last year. Found a handful of chants, no trumpets but, surprisingly, HUNDREDS of edible boletes. I had previously seldom had good luck finding pick-worthy boletes, often having to shift through tons of bitters and blue-stainers before finding a scant amount of edibles. Not so today. The bitters and blue-stainers are out but far out numbered by bi-color and other edible boletes. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what kinds of boletes I picked this morning but I can rule out that they're not bitter, blue staining or red-pored. And most of them were in relatively good shape.
Anybody else experiencing a bolete bonanza?
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Post by avngal on Aug 3, 2011 20:42:32 GMT -6
I'm finding Kings all over the place!
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Post by robebabu on Aug 4, 2011 1:01:52 GMT -6
I found several bi-colored and some kings today. Many were small, and not worth picking. Some of the larger ones were past their prime. I saw a lot that were parasitized by a white mold, which seemed to be proliferating almost more than anything else.
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Earthmom
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Post by Earthmom on Aug 4, 2011 21:09:39 GMT -6
Yesterday I found bunch of those cute little boletes that are sort of a mini-bolete with a nice velvety chestnut brown flat cap and white pores when young that turn yellowish when older. I don't know the name but they are obviously edibles...I've always intended to try them but have never found enough to try. I think they will be sauteed in the mornin'! Also, they usually get worms right away but the edges of them are usually still not touched so I'll cut the middle out. Here's a pic:  I also found some blueing boletes that I STILL haven't tried...just been a bit afraid but they are suppose to be fine.  |
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Post by ec rob on Aug 5, 2011 9:35:13 GMT -6
Earthmom, I think those little boletes are Gyroporus castaneus, i have found them also in small quantities, and i tried a couple last year, they aren't bad. I guess i need to get out hunting more this summer, i'll be camping this weekend in EC County, and i know there are chants there and Old man of the woods where i am going, so i should be able to find some edibles.
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Post by Payne on Aug 6, 2011 21:36:16 GMT -6
My audubon book says the smaller boletes with velvety red caps are poisonous. They're all over the place out here though and I've heard of them being eaten quite a bit. Any experiences?
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Post by Payne on Aug 6, 2011 21:53:37 GMT -6
And nobody likes the bluing boletes? I ate bluing bolete burgers last night and they were amazing.
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Post by aaron on Aug 11, 2011 10:50:15 GMT -6
Payne, I've always read that the bluing boletes are "poisonous" so I generally avoid them. Is there a way to tell that a blue-stainer is not poisonous? The slow blue-stainers are supposedly the non-poisonous ones but how does one define slow? 5 seconds? 30 seconds? 2 minutes?
As far as my bolete finds go all I can say is wow, what a difference a week makes. A week ago I had a spot overwhelmingly chock full of edible boletes. At that time I picked a bag full and left hundreds of small ones to grow. This week, hardly a trace of them.
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Post by ec rob on Aug 11, 2011 11:41:52 GMT -6
I found a bunch of Old Man of the Woods last weekend. not the greatest shrooms in the world, but they do in a pinch. I keep getting those smallish bicolor looking boletes right in my yard, but i'm scared to eat them also, not knowing exactly what they are.
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Post by patrick on Aug 16, 2011 7:42:33 GMT -6
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Post by ljojo on Aug 16, 2011 8:03:36 GMT -6
Boletes scare me. I'm so new to this and usually on my own, I just leave them all where I find them. Maybe next year I'll give 'em a try.
Loved the video patrick.
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Post by Earthmom on Aug 18, 2011 9:27:26 GMT -6
Thanks for the video Patrick! What kind of tree was that in the video? Was that a red pine? An oak? Hard to tell in the video. I bet you guys are never going to leave the northwoods!
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Post by patrick on Aug 18, 2011 14:22:23 GMT -6
Those were hemlocks. That is where I find most of my kings up here. Oaks can be good too, but typically only in old growth forests.
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Post by omth on Sept 5, 2011 19:03:08 GMT -6
My first Kings (one good, one a bit old) and some bluing boletes and one I havent looked up yet... not to mention a huge chunk of beartooth!)  |
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Post by omth on Sept 6, 2011 6:05:40 GMT -6
who wants to help me guess which of the three, not the one in the center (buggy so didnt eat) has kept me up all night with the worst stomach cramps ever?
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