Black Trumpets? Bolets?

[ruffin'it]

Found these today, not sure on the ID. Any help would be appreciated.



http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/100_8108.jpg

[RippinLipp]

Nice find ruffin.
They look like trumpits to me but I cant say for sure since I still haven't found any myself. As far as the bolets I cant say what kind because I have not picked any this year. I find a bunch of them but thats something I'm working on for next year. I like doing my research on something before I jump into them.

[Linda G.]

I'm the same as Rippin, they look like trumpets, but since I've never found any...and I'm far from any kind of expert on boletes. Get hold of Michigan Mike, he'll know, and keep doing all the tests.

[bassdisaster]

Found these today, not sure on the ID. Any help would be appreciated.



http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/100_8108.jpg
Those be some FINE Black Trumpets!
But the pictures need to be better and up close up for anyone to have a chance at an ID on the Boletes!
From What I see, that Big one looks like a FROSTS bolete, kewl looking but NOT an eater! ID by the red rough corragated like stem, cant see but it prolly has a red cap as well! If not then its just a case of not being able to see them clearly!
The others I just cant see well enough to say!

BD

[ruffin'it]

Here is a better pic of the Black Trumpets (about 1 lb), the "Bolets" were pretty buggy so I tossed them.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/100_8114.jpg (http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/100_8114.jpg)

[fasthunter]

Those be some FINE Black Trumpets!
But the pictures need to be better and up close up for anyone to have a chance at an ID on the Boletes!
From What I see, that Big one looks like a FROSTS bolete, kewl looking but NOT an eater! ID by the red rough corragated like stem, cant see but it prolly has a red cap as well! If not then its just a case of not being able to see them clearly!
The others I just cant see well enough to say!

BD
That big one isn't a Frost bolete. Frost boletes have red pores as well. I can't tell by the pic what kind of boletes those are. Would need a close up of the top, side, and bottom to get an idea of where to go from there. Probably should check for some type of bruising as well. The others look like black trumpets though. NICE!:coolgleam

[Michigan Mike]

Congrats on your first BT's RI!!

one of your boletes in your first photo might be
a cousin of the Frost, Russellii.
The stem on both are very distinctive and as FH mentioned
closeups would help in the future.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/boletellus_russellii.html

mike

[Roosevelt]

Looks to me that you may have:

Dark, red capped, and apparently slimy one left of center is most likely Frost's bolete. It should have red pores, stem, cap, and stain blue/ black heavily in most parts of the shroom. Two major features of Frost's are heavy reticulation on the stem, and the pores on young, firm specimens will have yellow droplets on them. Like pee! If you look closely on older specimens you can sometimes see the dried stain remnants of this, like a watermark on the pore surface.

The large one turned upside down at the bottom of the photo might possibly be Russell's bolete. Although, the pores usually hang down below the cap and are quite spongy and soft overall. Russell's also has strong reticulation, but lacks the dark red coloration and blue staining of Frost's. Russell's doesn't stain blue or black and usually has a very long stem of equal width top to bottom.

Both Russell's and Frost's bolete are very distinct, cool mushrooms and are easy/ good ones to learn for ID purposes.

The 3 orange capped ones in the center are most likely what is commonly referred to as "orange capped boletes", which is a gathering of several species of Leccinum. If they had a stalk that was for the most part white appearing to be sprinkled with black pepper then they are leccinums of a sort. When it comes to orange capped boletes/ leccinum, narrowing down to exact species is very hard and there has been debate over exactly what orange capped leccinums grow here in the USA. BTW! If they were orange caps you should have noticed some degree of bluing/ greening when the shroom was cut in a cross section, especially near the area where the cap and stem meet each other. Sometimes the staining will, in time, turn a wine red. These are the keys for orange capped leccinum species.

I have no clue on the others.

[ruffin'it]

Thanks for all of the info, I will take better/more pictures next time.