Boletus

The mushroom Boletus porosporus isn't especially rare, isn't poisonous, and, Dr. Watling says, "It has a taste like old socks."

The Fungus Among Us Multiplies As Mycological Taxonomists Wither Gautam Naik 2011

The companion volume Edible Fungi is so mild by comparison, which is as it should be, a discreet repeat pattern of Boletus versipellis jumping up out of a frying pan.

King Poison Peter Ashley 2008

And I was interested to see a photo of a Boletus .... for many years I had a property in central Texas covered with pines which after a rain produced a big orange capped mushroom I dared not eat til I identified it as a Boletus Granulans .... because instead of gills it has what might look like a granulated underneath, which is pale yellow.

Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms in Mexico 2008

The menu that evening featured white truffles (Tuber magnatum) and porcini (Boletus edulis), two local delicacies that had just come into season.

Recipes: Tajarin (Fresh Egg Yolk Tagliarini), Tajarin with White Truffles, Olive Oil, and Parmesan, & Tajarin with Sage Butter Laurie Constantino 2008

The menu that evening featured white truffles (Tuber magnatum) and porcini (Boletus edulis), two local delicacies that had just come into season.

Archive 2008-03-01 Laurie Constantino 2008

And I was interested to see a photo of a Boletus .... for many years I had a property in central Texas covered with pines which after a rain produced a big orange capped mushroom I dared not eat til I identified it as a Boletus Granulans .... because instead of gills it has what might look like a granulated underneath, which is pale yellow.

Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms in Mexico 2008

And I was interested to see a photo of a Boletus .... for many years I had a property in central Texas covered with pines which after a rain produced a big orange capped mushroom I dared not eat til I identified it as a Boletus Granulans .... because instead of gills it has what might look like a granulated underneath, which is pale yellow.

Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms in Mexico 2008

For example the vascular epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides) is extracted for Christmas ornamental purposes in Mexico, and a large variety of mushrooms in pine-oak forests, including species in the genera Amanita, Leccinum, Russula, and Boletus, are extracted for culinary use.

Biological diversity in the Madrean pine-oak woodlands 2008

They include Boletus xanthacyaneus, Cortinarius boudieri v. pseudoarcuatus, Cortinarius pelargoniobtusus, Lepiota foruignoni and Lycoperdon velatum.

Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland 2008

Boletus mushrooms are found in pine and spruce forests — pine forests are also where you find lingonberries ripening by about September.

Fun With Fungi: 2008