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The Bolete rule
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I read that boletes are safe when you keep the follwing rules in mind
1) Don't eat the one's with red spore tubes
2) Don't eat the one's that bruise blue

However, what about spore tubes that bruises blue first but then changes colour or flesh that doesn't bruise blue but spore tubes do?
And what about flesh that slightly bruises blueish and then returns to its base colour?

Thanks!

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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: taman]
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You should only eat a mushroom if you know his genera and specie

Dont trust grandma's tips


My two cents


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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: taman]
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You can trust those tips but they work only in North America and only with the genus Boletus.

If it stains blue and then goes back to its normal color (all blue staining boletes do this), you need to ID it to species to determine if its edible.

A few species with red pores are edible, like Boletus frostii.  (remove the cap surface of that species)

All Leccinum are edible unless the cap is orange.

All Tylopilus are edible unless they are bitter.

All Strobilomyces are edible.

All Suillus are edible but its a good idea to remove the cap surface.

These rules probably work outside of north america but I am not 100% sure.

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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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Alan Rockefeller said:
You can trust those tips but they work only in North America and only with the genus Boletus.

If it stains blue and then goes back to its normal color (all blue staining boletes do this), you need to ID it to species to determine if its edible.

A few species with red pores are edible, like Boletus frostii.  (remove the cap surface of that species)

All Leccinum are edible unless the cap is orange.

All Tylopilus are edible unless they are bitter.

All Strobilomyces are edible.

All Suillus are edible but its a good idea to remove the cap surface.

These rules probably work outside of north america but I am not 100% sure.


Given Alan's information, it looks like the rule is, there is no rule.


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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: LanLord]
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That's not correct.  It might seem like an information overload but if you become familiar with the defining features of each genus, that in addition is not too much to remember.

I also don't know if it would work here but :cheers: Alan.


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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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Alan Rockefeller said:
All Leccinum are edible unless the cap is orange.



This is not true for Europe, Leccinum aurantiacum and Leccinum versipelle have orange caps and are some of the best edibles.
I never heard of this rule, ofcourse I'm not very familiar with NA mushrooms, so could you please give me an example of this, I'm interested now, because I thought all lecinum are edible...

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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: Tangich]
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LanLord said:
Given Alan's information, it looks like the rule is, there is no rule.


No, there are rules for boletes and they are reliable.

Tangich said:
This is not true for Europe, Leccinum aurantiacum and Leccinum versipelle have orange caps and are some of the best edibles.
I never heard of this rule, ofcourse I'm not very familiar with NA mushrooms, so could you please give me an example of this, I'm interested now, because I thought all lecinum are edible...


Most of the North American Leccinum with orange caps are edible as well.

There is one species, perhaps undescribed from the Rocky Mountains area that has an orange cap and causes upset stomach.

Personally I would eat orange Leccinums without worrying about it, but the rules are there to keep people safe...

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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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Thanks everyone, did not know that most boletes revert back to the original colour when bruised.
I finally identified the boletes i found today as Boletus (Xerocomus) Badius and Boletus Chrysenteron. The Badius bruises slightly blue but apparently it is edible.

I just started hunting and i m sticking to the boletes as i think they are mighty cool and their spore tubes make identification a lot easier. At least for putting them in the right family that is :smile:

Edited by taman (10/03/10 07:12 PM)

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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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Alan Rockefeller said:
LanLord said:
Given Alan's information, it looks like the rule is, there is no rule.


No, there are rules for boletes and they are reliable.

Tangich said:
Personally I would eat orange Leccinums without worrying about it, but the rules are there to keep people safe...


Same here. delicious:thumbup:

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Re: The Bolete rule [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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The only orange capped leccinum that I have seen or harvested is leccinum insigne, aspen bolete,    Alaska is covered in them and they are good eating. Many first timers ate them and nobody got sick. The only down side to them is that they turn pitch black when dried, not real pretty on the plate.


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