Mushroom Mushroom!

King Bolete  Boletus edulis

I'm not telling where I went hiking today. I went to find Matsutake and I did find three of them, but look what I found in the middle of my Matsutake spot!

I had a great time hiking and mushroom hunting but the weather was very hot so I turned back short of my goal.

It's a good thing that I hike light, I had a lot of extra mushroom weight to carry on the way out.

5.5 miles with 2,000 feet elevation gain

Here are some videos from today's hike:

Finding a King in my Matse Spot:




Finding two Matsutake:

I was really hoping for this to be a Matsutake, was I let down or was it a Matsutake?



My dog eats blueberries off the bush:

Time to turn around, Patches is hot:


5 miles with 2,000 feet elevation gain


Bears Heads

Hydnellum peckii

Boletus mirabilis, commonly known as the admirable bolete, the bragger's bolete, and the velvet top, is an edible species of fungus in the Boletaceae mushroom family.

Chicken of the woods in it's prime, but I did not pick any

Chicken of the woods

I left this king behind to feed the worms

That's my lens cap for scale

Today's awesome haul: Three Matsutake, 21 King Boletes, 2 Bears Heads
3 Clusters of Blue Chanterelles and a mess of Hedgehogs all absolutely
choice gourmet mushrooms, I would have been happy to find just
one of any of these species

Two matsutake

Unknown truffle like fungi filled with maggots



Laetiporus conifericola aka Chicken of the woods



Matsutake

Slug eating a Russula, notice the cross in the picture
It's the trinty of slug,mushroom and moss!

Boletus edulus or King Bolete



Cream of King Bolete Soup