Last week I observed many different varieties of boletes – mushrooms with pores instead of gills or teeth. Here are some examples.
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Falling Apart
I found this massive bolete and decided to bring it back to the cabin for identification. After carrying it around all day, when I got back to the cabin and took the mushrooms from my basket, this one not only had crushed a few others,… Read More
The Bracebridge Resource Management Centre
This is a so-called experimental forest in the Bracebridge area of Ontario. As you can see in the photo, it consists of an extensive network of trails near the Muskoka River through a variety of forest mixes. I observed a lot of mushrooms as the… Read More
Turtle Lake
…continued from previous post: Limberlost Reserve… The Turtle Lake West Trail becomes the Turtle Lake East Trail when you cross the stream by a lovely cedar bridge. There are actually two of them, but one is blocked off with some ribbon, which I took to… Read More
Back from the woods
If you look closely, you’ll see that Ellie Mae is posing beside some mushrooms. We hiked into Duck Chutes on the Muskoka river. The dogs are loving the swim. Memphis is posing in front of a huge basswood tree, on a trail around a lake… Read More
Today in the Enchanted Mushroom Forest
I had planned to take the dogs out for our usual Sunday in the woods, but it was a grim and rainy morning, so I decided to do leave the dogs at home and do an abbreviated trip. I know a forest that often gives… Read More
Chance of Showers
Yesterday I packed up the dogs and headed for the forests where I like to forage for mushrooms. On the radio, I heard “chance of showers”. The rain started in by the time I crossed Highway 9 and it just kept raining. It rained and… Read More
Bounty
I laid today’s bounty out on a table on the deck. There are some different species of boletes, two types of chanterelles, hedgehogs, and lobsters. I gave away quite a few, I have a lot in the dehydrator, and I made some soup tonight. The… Read More
Cinnabar Chanterelles
My brother Salvelinas finds these all the time up near Fontinalis World Headquarters. These were the first ones I’ve found. There were only these two and one more around, and when I found them, I scoured the area around them very carefully. There were lots… Read More
Boletes
I scored the bottom of the cap on this bolete with a pocket knife and it immediately turned a dark blue. You can also see blue staining at the bottom of the stalk. I don’t know what species this one is, but with reddish pores… Read More