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more mushroom help please! (bolete)

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:13 pm
by alec-ish
found these today not entirely sure what they are
im thinking either oak bolete (boletus appendiculatus)
or iodine bolete (boletus impolitus)??????
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found with beech and oak trees a fair bit smaller than penny buns
not sure if you can see in the picture but they have gone slighly blue where ive cut in half

i cant find any similar poisonous species but any help with id or similar poisonous ones much appriciated
p.s im hungry!

Re: more mushroom help please! (bolete)

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:20 pm
by fungi2bwith
They look like red cracking boletes (boletus chrysenteron) to me.

Re: more mushroom help please! (bolete)

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:35 pm
by Geoff
alec-ish wrote: p.s im hungry!
Unfortunately they aren't really worth eating...too soggy and tasteless. Oak Boletes are much bigger and firmer - and tastier - and rarer.

Re: more mushroom help please! (bolete)

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:17 pm
by fungi2bwith
Of course, taste is subjective. Although there are undoubtedly better tasting mushrooms, I think small, firm, red cracking boletes are worth eating.