Mid-Summer Edible Mushroom Hunting

This shaggy stalked bolete is actually a prized edible mushroom!🍄While there are more types of boletes than the human mind can comprehend (at least mine), and many quite difficult to distinguish from similar species, this one is pretty easy to learn and spot across the forest floor. With it’s impossibly long, heavily decorated stalk and tiny bright red cap, it’s hard to believe this is really how it’s meant to look. 🍄Most folks prefer to just eat the stalk (the cap texture is less enjoyable),

Satan’s Bolete (Rubroboletus eastwoodiae), a chonky bolete with a reddish to brownish cap, deep red pores, and thick stem with well defined reticulation (netting/webbing) and a bulbous base: This is a mycorrhizal species that occurs in association with oaks. The flesh stain blue when exposed to oxygen, but not quite as quickly or as darkly as other red-pored boletes. This is a deadly toxic species that contains bolesatine, a glycoprotein that can accumulate in the liver, inhibiting protein synth

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