I will go with bolete buddy going forward! Thanks for the tip. Looks like Polytropic below nailed this one down and you were right it is in the king bolete complex. Any recipe suggestions on them?

Also the more I dug the more I saw going on with that complex. Crazy complicated and lots more for us to learn.

Nice pull! This matches exactly. Online seems to have little information on this guy’s range which was my only concern from me, from wiki “with distribution limits unknown”. As usual it seems like there are more questions then answers with mushroom species.

I am going to call it and grab some for dinner. This is my first time trying something in the King Bolete complex so I am pumped. Thanks so much for the help.

These stipes give me the heeby jeebys, great find!

My dog and him had a Mexican standoff where they just started at each other. Must have been a weird day for the little guy.

Most critters want nothing to do with you. Your poke it till it leaves strategy is a sound one. Just don’t corner it and give it an easy way out. If it is an opposum they play dead which I am sure you are aware of. So if you spook it good it will lay there, then after awhile it will start moving again and take off.

I agree though that keeping it away might be the trickier part but I have no experience on that realm.

Earlier today I evicted a groundhog from my backyard so I feel your pain.

Where about is this beauty located? It looks like old man of the woods(Strobilomyces strobilaceus) to me.

Edit- Ehhhh, I think I am misseeing the texture I thought was there. I will defer to those under me. Also no veil remnants so I will put a nail in the old man coffin.

If you get a spore print that would help as well.

I love these. The shine and feel of the lacquered bits is nice.

Nice! The stinkhorns are wild. I always get a kick out of the aptly named dog stinkhorn.

I have come across these plenty of times but I never tried to eat them. Have you ever given them a shot?

Confirming paw paw. I ate so many last fall I got sick for days. I love paw paw and make a ice cream out of them every year.

I have paw paw seeds out the ass and already vernalized. If anyone is actually interested I can send you some.

Hey I am looking for may pointers you have. We had a huge storm roll in and knocked down some huge trees on my property. I am planning on going into the woods and grabbing some oaks, lines and walnuts to replace them. Any tips on transplanting?

They look like Mica caps(Coprinellus micaceus) to me. Were they sparkly by chance?

There were about 10 or so. I only grabbed a few, I like to leave plenty to send out spores.

Nope, these guys are a choice edible. You are probably thinking of gyromitra genus.

That is interesting. I have some weird gymnopilus that I does not fit cleanly into a species(I am probably missing something honestly), I will have to look into that program to finally find out. Thanks for passing that along.

Are you doing the sequencing or are you sending it off for analysis?

This is a staple of Menards. When I die I hope I wake up in a Menards store front, smelling cut pine with a Sprechers in my hand.