J.C. found some elephantine Florida Bolete Mushrooms and wrote to recount me the narrative :
Hi David ,
That is a greatarticle again this month in the AGRIMAG . hike up around this AM I feel this giant guy with 4 of his friends .
10 .5 inch hood diam , up -turned roof , non - gilled . await beneficial enough to feed . White flesh , slight musk odor when broken off a number of the cap and non bleeder .
They were located on our farm in a minuscule stand of big oaks . I am thinking boletes kin but have not been able to get a electropositive ID .
What do you retrieve ? ”
Those are definitely some jumbo bolete ! What a marvelous find !
you could narrate they ’re boletes by the pores on the bottom of the jacket . Unlike most of the mushroom you ’ll find , boletes have pores , not gills .
Is This Giant Bolete Safe To Eat?
As I ’ve written before in my article onhow to place an edible bolete :
I screw , this seems mean , but once you ’ve found a bolete , cut into it or crush a corner . If the frame rapidly stains blue , you may have an uneatable type . Discard it unless you are an expert .
Some of the toxic bolete have brilliant red or yellow pore on the bottom . If your mushroom cloud looks like that , there ’s a good chance it ’s not an edible bolete . ”
So , after a few seconds of reflection , I must say I ’d eat those giant boletes so fast you ’d barely have time to say “ garlic butter . ”
Keep Watching for New Boletes!
The great affair about these mushroom is that they ’ll amount back in that same location again and again as the weather make fruit . I used to walk a three - Accho patch in my honest-to-goodness neighborhood in the days after a operose rain and hunt a variety of excellent mushrooms . I found some great stuff , includingthis amazingLactarius indigo :
mushroom-shaped cloud are just the generative parcel of a larger organism beneath the worldly concern .
Boletes , like many other mushroom cloud , often dwell in symbiotic harmony with certain specie of trees . In this case , the bolete are living in a patch of oaks . They offer minerals to the tree root and the trees ply them with sugars . Then , when the rainfall and temperature are proper , they grow mushrooms above the ground like the beautiful ones in J.C. ’s exposure .
mushroom cloud hunting does n’t have to be terrifying . If you could ID some of the bare and safe types , you ’ll have plenty of gastronome food for thought . If you want to go deeper , you may , but I stick to the really sluttish ones like bolete , chanterelles , puffballs and a few others .
I ’ve got a great library of mushroom books that have educated and inspired my shrooming over the year .
Check outmy mushroom-shaped cloud hunt book good word hereand you ’ll before long be deplete like a baron on epicurean fare you ca n’t buy at any price .
Some have said that Florida is n’t a great stead for mushroom hunt . I disagree . I ’ve found some great finds … and so have others , as J.C. ’s giant Florida bolete mushroom testify . Florida ’s a enceinte state !
