Boletes?

[omth]

found these in my pics from Michigan on the 4th of July... having issues clearly identifying them just by the pics... thoughts?

[robebabu]

Some mutated shrooms, that's for sure. The first looks like it might be a Cantharellus, judging by how the gills look. Although, most of the purple mushrooms I am familiar with (Lepistas, Corts) don't look too similar. The second one is certainly a Bolete, possibly edulis.

I am not a pro at identifying species, but I do know that it is imperative to get spore prints, especially for lesser-known harder to identify species.

[mushroommike]

I am looking to get into some solid numbers of king boletes this year during June. Does anyone want to do a weekend foray somewhere? Preferably someone/s that is experienced in IDing Boletus Edulus?

I'll bring the beer!

[orion]

Are the mushrooms on the left Kings or is that some kind of Scaber stalk? The pores are white..................The mushrooms on the right I believe are some sort of Bolete but not so sure.

Any one know?

Thanks
Orion

[cisco]

Orion - With the standard qualifying statement that it is difficult to ID shrooms from a photo.... The ones on the left are pretty clearly scaber stalks - genus Leccinum, but without the mushroom in-hand I won't even guess at a species name.

As for the ones on the right, probably another "bolete", but I won't even hazard a guess as to genus and species.

[mushroommike]

So this is the closest I've ever come to finding anything that I'm 90% sure is a king bolete. The lack of reticulation on the neck of the stalk however is the 10% which is creating doubt. Thoughts?

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[mushroommike]

Underside cap and stalk

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[mushroommike]

Lack of reticulation on stalk.

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[mushroommike]

Non staining when cut, dull yellow in older specimen's pores, typical worminess.

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[rob]

the stalk looks like it dos have reticulation to me , could be bitters, the ones at the top of the page definitely look like the biters I found last week.

[cisco]

Mushroommike - When enlarged, your 3rd photo shows the white reticulation quite well. That's what you're looking for. Its easier to see in the field if you carry a small magnifying glass.

The bitter boletes typically have a brown reticulation at the top of the stem, and then the taste and spit test is definitive. But you can only do the taste test if you're not going to need those taste buds for anything else for a while.

[ec rob]

Found a whole bunch of these very large pretty boletes yesterday, not sure exactly what species they are yet. They were all over in a spot I found some chants in last year, I picked a couple of them to study, there were at least a dozen more of them in that one spot. The flesh is white, doesn't stain, the pore surface is kind of cream colored, I didn't get any spores out of the one I was trying to print over night, maybe there will be some when I get home from work. Pretty sure they aren't kings though. Which is too bad, cuz the one I cut open had no bugs in it. I tried the taste test, but I think I'm one of those who is immune to the bitterness, because to me the tylopilus felleus I have tasted in the past weren't terribly bitter. This one was not terribly bitter either, although it wasn't completely pleasant tasting either. Someday I'll hopefully try a king so I can see what they are supposed to taste like. The largest one in the photo was covered with some kind of mold I think. You can see another smaller one in the background, with a darker colored cap. I also found a single specimen of a somewhat smaller bolete with a yellow pore surface and a reddish cap, when I sliced it open it eventually got a little bit of blue stain to it. Not exactly sure what that one was either, but not planning on eating it anyways.

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[brookie]

I found tons of those the other day also. There were so many and some huge ones I knew they had to be worthless lol. Going north in august to see what the kings look like in person. I don't think there are any numbers of any decent edible boletes close to me. Tons of bitters and old men. After tasting the old man of the woods...that one is on my only eat to survive list.

[ec rob]

Okay, I've said this before and been disappointed to find they were bitters, but these have got to be kings! I haven't seen any bitters around for a few weeks, and these have the very plump tapered stems. I'm kicking myself though, because there were at least a dozen huge ones nearby that were nasty and moldy already, I should have been down there a few days ago I guess. Oh well, I will definitely remember this spot. I did the taste test, and didn't get any of the slightly off flavor that my defective taste buds get from the bitters, so these must be the real thing finally.

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[ec rob]

I was out fishing yesterday evening, and walking back to the truck I kept finding gazillions of big bi-colors, which I'm not going to try, and I did find a few bitters - so my report from Monday was a bit premature. (However, I still stand by identification of the above boletes as not bitters, the bigger ones I found in the area didn't have any pinkishness at all, they were more yellow on the pore surface.) Anyway, back to last night, I just happened to look to my left and the low angle of the sun was shining just right to illuminate a large mushroom in profile in the woods about 15 feet from the trail, and I almost kept walking thinking it was another bi-color. But it wasn't, and there were a whole bunch of them. Definitely members of the king family again. It's not easy to tell from the photo, but the pore surface on the big one is olive green, and they all passed the taste test. I filled my dehydrator and still had a few left over, so I fried a couple of the smaller ones up with my eggs this morning. Delicious.

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