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On this week, I felt determined to find some nice, edible boletes. We've been mushroom hunting and doing our homework and I felt confident that we should be able to hunt up something delicious.

Our friend Aaron came along with us and he also has a ton of great photos of fungus.

We made a stop at the Lady Tresse orchids, still beautiful and in bloom.

Fragrant nodding Ladies' Tresses Orchids spiranthes cernua f. odorata (read more)


We found a lot of interesting mushrooms, including this really bizarre and sort of disgusting stink horn.

Elegant Stinkhorn mutinus elegans


Unfortunately none of them were boletes.

Some kind of coral mushroom. Possibley Clustered Coral or Crested Coral



No idea what this is


Unidentified club-shaped mushroom


Unidentified


Unidentified (big)



Unidentified coral mushroom



Finally, on our way out of the woods, right next to the path, we ran into a huge patch of boletes. There were two kinds of Suillus, or maybe the same kind but some young and some old. The older kind were nasty and full of worms and we threw them out.

old, wormy suillus mushrooms


The others looked fairly appetizing, so we cooked one up to try. It was delicious. To be on the safe side, we only ate a tiny amount and put the rest on the refridgerator for a couple days to make sure we weren't going to get indigestion from them.

fresh, yummy suillus mushrooms


A couple days later I put them in a quiche. It was a mistake to put them in the quiche. They were pretty much lost in there and were much nicer just sauteed in butter.

In case anyone is worried, we aren't giving Vigo mushrooms. He doesn't like cooked mushrooms these days and we've read that kids should avoid wild mushrooms anyhow.

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