sfris83

ya even for a massive chantrelle that would be big and the stem seems so big. they do have a resemblence to lobster mushrooms and that is about the starting size for lobsters... the color and over all texture though is way way different than any lobster i have collected in oregon or washington at least. maybe it is some sort of other parasite fungus though?

How big was it? doesn't seem quite right for a lobster though... There are realatives of the lobster mushroom aswell. I collect a lot of chantrelles and it does resemble imature chantrelles that got stunted or maybe a bit too warm and humid and rotted a bit. but again not quite right from the pictures at least. size or a picture with scale would help. What kind of a habitat was it found in... under what trees, elevation, what part of the country, etc.

That is the one it most closley matches in one of my field guides. The way the guide talks though it sounded like there range usually stopped in southern oregon. I left 2 of them in place in the forest. I will have to go back this week end and try to get pictures of adult specimens.

The ones i find can be pretty brittle or pretty dense i think mattering on how fresh they are. Hard to be 100% sure from pictures but right now i'm finding a ton of them too between 1500-4000 foot range.

I believe it is a short stemmed russulas. Though there are a couple russulas that look similar. I find these all over wester oregon and washington. The area i pick chantrelles in has a huge ammount of these this year some the size of dinner plates.

So these are some of my first boletes. The larger ones feel like felty or like a peach. The smaller button form is way smoother but not say as smooth as a store bought mushroom. I could see calling them felty if i was not comparing them to the larger ones. The only other comparison i have is a suede bolete button i found last fall and it was very felty like these larger ones. also is there a good guide online about boletes i would love to harvest some i trusted to eat. i have 3 books that have good descriptions of what to look for but almost nothing on what to avoid and if i'm being honest which ones to avoid seem more important to me... or do all the boletes falling into these charecterstics tend to be edible?

these were found in cowlitz county wa. they were in a mixed forest of hemlock, pine and fir. growing in dirt but lots of rotting wood around. Pore are white and the flesh is white. no blueing or really bruising of any kind when flesh or poors are disturbed.

what about these? they were found near by maybe a half mile from the other boletes in a similar area with hemlocks but more firs and pines as well.

thank you that looks right from the pictures i just looked up and the spore print i just finished making was olive brown. I found a large patch of these. some of them with caps almost 10 inches across. This is my first year trying to find and identify boletes while out chantrelle foraging.

i found this bolete in cowlitz county washington. i believe them to be queen bolete's or possibly a darker king. they where found among fir, hemlock and some cedar trees; though there was some smaller hardwoods aspen, oak, and others near by.