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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Todays mushroom is Boletus edulis (King Bolete). The mushroom is Edible and excellent. It grows in North America, Europe.
Description: This is a large, robust bolete with dull brown cap, dirty white pores and stout and swollen stem. It has a white net over upper stem. It is a very popular, delicious, meaty mushroom that grows all over the world.
Cap The color is quite variable from light brown to reddish brown, convex or bun-shaped. Flesh white, unchanged when cut or bruised. The pore layer is quite hard when young and white changing to yellowish then to pea soup green to greenish brown becoming fairly soft at maturity. Tubes white at first, slowly becoming greyish yellow to olive-brown. Stem Very thick and club shaped. The stem is usually finely reticulated meaning it has a net shaped raised pattern on the surface. The reticulation is most pronounced near the top. The color can vary from whitish cream to reddish brown. It can become cylindrical at maturity. Ring absent. Interior solid.
Similar species Boletus variipes has a dry, tan cap and grows with oak; Tylopilus felleus is similar when young but tastes bitter and is thus inedible.
Boletus edulis on the First Nature Web site.
Boletus edulis on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 8–20(30) cm; stem 6-8 cm tall * 2-4 cm diameter
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
