Help ID these boletes

[rxakt]

Hey guys/gals... Im new to this site. Im trying to ID these mushrooms... Im quite sure they are edible, but you know... better safe than sorry.

These here have a purple hat, brownish stem.. the pores are white. the stems turn lite purpel when scratched. The spores do not change color when bruised. The 2 in the middle are different... brown hat, brown stem, spores are white as the other ones.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3872613335/


These ones.. look like coral mushrooms, and are suppose to be edible. Kind of hard to confuse them with any other mushroom.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873396662/

These, I need help with... they have a white stem, the spores are white/yellow, the hat is light brown and is slimy. Neither the spores or the stem bruise to any color.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873395818/

These here have a white stem, white spores and a lite hat... almost certainly an edible bolete.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873394018/

And these last ones have a light hat, yellow spores and white stem.. I think they are the same ones as the previous mushrooms but older.. what do you think?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3872609807/



This pic for enterntainment purposes :) :SHOCKED:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873393268/
Thanks guys...
p.s. nice antler eh? :lol:

[fasthunter]

I can't give 100% ID's off of the photo's and information. The one's with the slimy caps are some type of suillius though. They are edible and good, but you want to peels the slimy cap off and take the pores out. I caught a glimpse of some all red boletes with red pore's, red cap, and a red deeply reticulated stem. (Like a fishnet pattern crisscrossed.) That one is boletus Frosti. I wouldn't eat that one. Pretty though. The ones with the very fat bulbous bottoms. Did the pores bruise a pinkish-brownish color? If it did it's some type of typophillius. Some are very bitter and nasty. If you take a nibble and spit it out does it have a bitter taste? (With boletes it's safe to nibble a piece and spit it out for ID's.) If it didn't bruise I'm thinking you may have got lucky and found possibly boletus varripes, or even a king. Hard to tell without seeing everything close up. What were the ones with the fat stems growing by? Oaks or pine? I'm just trying to help and without seeing really good close ups and very detailed descriptions of everything I'm just speculating and trying to help though. Another thing that may help is if you go to mushroom expert.com you can type boletes in the search part. From there you will find a guide that will talk you through trying to ID boletes too. Oh, I almost forgot some corals are edible and some aren't. I don't mess with them. Were they growing on wood or the ground?

BTW. Welcome to this site!!

[Michigan Mike]

Welcome to the site RT and nice pics and thats a nice antler for sure!

I personally don't know anyone that eats corals
and as fh mentioned some are too be avoided.

I think FH summed it up pretty good imo.
I see some boletus, suillus and maby some leccinums in there.
As as fh mentioned the tops of suillus need to be removed.
Probably easier to focus on one at a time, showing closeups,
cut versions and mention spore print/tree types if you have it.

The only one I know for sure is the frost bolete in the second pic that
fh mentioned.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/boletus_frostii.html

Check out this thread too, maybe it will help you get close on some of them
or at least break them down a bit.
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=293998

mike

[bassdisaster]

I know people who eat Corals, but only 1 species and thats the CROWNED coral, they are white when fresh, yellowing with age, but they have distinctive CROWNning top's, usually a depression with more growths froming off the edges giving the CROWNED effect!
Hope this helps!

BD

[Michigan Mike]

Here's a good read on the crown-tipped coral.
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jun2001.html

mike

[rxakt]

Thanks everyone for the help.. I think I got it pretty much figured out..
There are 200 or so bolete species in Michigan.. I been through a million sites now.. and read over 5 books and it seems like any bolete with red pores is bad! It also seems like some boletes are great and others are "alright".
Generally I noticed that boletes with brown tops and white spores are good... I yet have to see one thats bad. You can always taste the fresh shroom to see if its bitter.
Also... you can always cook the shroom.. and try a small portion of it to see if it has any adverse effects.. at most it wil give you the poops.
Other than that.. boletes are great! I stay away from other shrooms with gills... too hard to ID.... Except for corals. Those have been easy to find, easy to ID and they taste good without any bad effects.

I will start breaking the boletes down into groups with pictures ... and will let you all know which were good, bad, and ... ugly. :)
Thanks guys

[Roosevelt]

Those are some intersting finds.

I'm not 100% sure about the toxicity of boletes, but trying a small portion of an unknown bolete without at least making sure it meets the rules of edibility is probably a bad idea. Some species can cause serious problems. They may not be deadly, but who knows what the long term effects are?

there are brown capped and white pored boletes that stain blue as well.

I do know that some shrooms, although not deadly, can cause serious gastro upset, way worse than a case of the Hershey squirts. if you ever do sample an unknown shroom make sure and save uncooked specimens in the fridge in case an ID is later required.

it'll be cool to see what other shrooms you find/ pics you have, BTW.

[rxakt]

How do you like them apples?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3882973219/


Kings...

[rxakt]

Just to let you guys know....
these id to be boletes from abitter family

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3872613335/in/set-72157622098553389/

2 different kinds.. ones with red/blue cap and others with brown top and brown stems with very clear netting. They are bitter to the taste when fresh and when dried...

these white ones in the middle are edibe.. they have a very light gray/brown cap, white spores and white stems with no netting..
taste good when fresh and when dried..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873394018/in/set-72157622098553389/


These guys turned out to be good when young... and when marinated...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873395818/in/set-72157622098553389/

And like I said before.. the corals...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873396662/in/set-72157622098553389/
were good when fried or dried or whatever way you want them.. be ure to clean them well as they seem to trap sand inside the bunches.

Well... happy shrooming...

[Roosevelt]

Very nice! It sucks about those bitters as I find many of the typical bitter along with those purple ones too.

[rxakt]

So we decided to go explore a bit and headed out to the Saugatuck State Park/Forrest... we parked the car... we walked in the forrest.. and went off the trail... and ran smack into these!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3943761744/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942977139/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3943753528/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942976257/

I nearly freaked out... I was like a kid in kindergarten when he found a quarter in playsand... :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3943756242/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3943760714/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942977813/

After gathering them all up... and doing a bit more trecking, we decided to stop and take a peek at our finds...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942980473/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942981835/


Only then did I notice that these were bitters..... noooooooooooooo!!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942982475/


You can see the pink spores on the bottom, and the immediate bitter taste when you bite into one a bit. Yuk!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3942983123/

They are still very pretty mushrooms, but not very edible...


Conclusion... Saugatuck State Park doesnt have the Trees that are suitable for Bolettes, to add the soil is very sandy and doesnt retain the mositure that well thus the areas for mushroom growth are limited.

Till next time...:SHOCKED:

[Michigan Mike]

Great pics Alex and bummer that they were bitter,
but it's always fun to explore new woods.

The ones in the center look familar to me and similar to some I find
and may be b.nobilis and I agree are a good edible.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873394018/in/set-72157622098553389/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3873394018/in/set-72157622098553389/)


These I've seen many times and are excellent imo.
I used to think they were either B. atkinsonii or B. Nobilissimus
but mine keyed out closer to the latter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3882973219/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxakt/3882973219/)

http://mushroomobserver.org/25104 (http://mushroomobserver.org/25104)

mike

[rxakt]

sweet, thanks for the input Mike...

now what the heck is going on with the weather? is it going to rain properly or what? just wait, one day it will be 80, next day its going to snow... haha just kidding.