Earthmom
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Post by Earthmom on Mar 23, 2012 15:54:56 GMT -6
Red bad...red bad! I have given up even trying to figure out the red cap boletes. There are too many different red tops that look the same and I don't have microscope yet so verify spores. Not worth the hassle for me anyway.
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blitzfish
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 23, 2012 22:38:30 GMT -6
The middle one definitely looks like a king. Big base tapering upwards... yeah fits the description.
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Post by cisco on Apr 13, 2012 14:25:33 GMT -6
You need to be careful IDing king boletes. There is a Boletus huronensis (google it) is a toxic king bolete look alike. According to credible web sources: It is cited as being rarely found, but often misidentified. It also has a bulbous stem. It also bruises light blue especially on the pore surface and does not have the reticulation at the top of the stem. Grows under hemlock.
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Post by cisco on Jun 15, 2012 14:20:58 GMT -6
Found the first king boletes of the year in a spot where they've produced in June before (not last year). There were 5 there, but only 2 worth bringing home. The bugs get to them really quickly in the warm weather. There may have been a 6th one there, but it wasn't identifiable - just a mass of mush. Under spruce and white cedar.
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Post by patrick on Jun 16, 2012 14:31:13 GMT -6
The the larger red capped leccinum. Maybe leccinum aurantiacum? If I'm right, you aren't the first. Did you drink alcohol when you ate them?
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Post by cisco on Jun 16, 2012 15:37:33 GMT -6
Sorry. I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't claiming the first bolete find in the state. I was only reporting my personal first for the year. I'm in the far north of WI. I'm not going to have the first find of anything except maybe snow.
They keyed out as king boletes (Boletus edulis). I dried them.
I don't eat red capped Leccinum anymore. I never had a problem with them, with or without alcohol, but there have been too many reports of illness. Could be more than one species that all look about the same.
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Post by patrick on Jun 16, 2012 21:23:12 GMT -6
Hey Cisco,
that was weird. I noticed there was a new post and was responding to what looked like a new post, but was something posted by Omth in 2011. I wasn't referring to your king find. I'll be taking a walk tomorrow and will report if I find any boletes. I miss them. Sad, I know.
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Post by cisco on Jun 17, 2012 14:44:30 GMT -6
OK Patrick, that made me laugh. I thought it was an odd response, but I truly had not been clear in my post.
The early kings are difficult. I'm lucky in that I've got a spot close to my house that I can check twice per day. Even so, its rare that I can bring any home. I can check at 6:00am when there's no kings. I can go back at 4:00pm and there can be several brand new ones, but they're already so bug ridden that they're not worth salvaging. Then I can go back in the morning and there's several new stumps that look like the deer have munched them down. The score so far this year: me - 2 bugs and deer - 8.
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blitzfish
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Post by blitzfish on Jun 18, 2012 12:45:27 GMT -6
That's why later season kings are so much easier cuz frost rids that bug problem quick.
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Post by cisco on Jun 19, 2012 18:17:51 GMT -6
Yeah. The best part about early season kings is that you know where to look after the first frost.
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rob
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Post by rob on Jul 27, 2012 12:55:08 GMT -6
found a few boletes today had a little time to kill before work and took a 30 minute walk in some woods and there i found them on he way out.Possibly bi-colors.Red cap, red and yellow stalk very slow blue staining to bad they weren't bigger would have probably tried a few but there were more coming up maybe a couple of days and there will be some bigger ones.
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rob
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Post by rob on Aug 1, 2012 16:04:10 GMT -6
Bi-colors seem like they are probably worthless to try as the size of them is not big enough to escape the bugs stalks are to small to give them anything to feed on and the bigger ones are all attacked by a white parasite fungus.However,I found a number a very big boletes today ,thanks to whoever was finding them before me because I may have not even went looking for the Kings I found if it wasn't for the tell tale stumps they were leaving on the ground.
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rob
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Post by rob on Aug 2, 2012 17:02:45 GMT -6
Try to attach some pics of the recent finds.http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/u513/guttersnake/DSC00285.jpg
not sure if thats how its done or not.
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rob
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Post by rob on Aug 2, 2012 21:04:58 GMT -6
maybe this way.  |
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rob
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Post by rob on Aug 2, 2012 21:16:43 GMT -6
found big numbers of these, thinking the dark reds could be bi-colors the other not sure.any ideas on any of the three photos  anyone? |
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