edible mushrooms in bc

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i'm more familiar with european mushrooms and some on the east coast, as it's quite a tradition in my family to pick each year...
however i've never picked in bc, and altho i know there are some really good species i've never come accross them.
today i did find something rather interesting, i do belive it's a zeller's bolete, but not 100% sure.
so i've taken a pic of it (next to my cell for comparison) and if there are any mushroom experts here pl. feel free to have a peek and give some advice. ..my mom sais don't eat it since it has a red stem, but i know that is not always the case.
btw, the pics were taken when the shroomie was wet, so no, the colors are not that bright. they have mellowed out to a nice mat brown and red instead.

thanks!
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    Re: edible mushrooms in bc

    Fri, October 19, 2007 - 10:05 PM
    i live just south of bc, and the mushrooms going off right now are lobsters and chantrells.........do a spore test.....
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      Sun, October 21, 2007 - 9:16 AM
      chantrells, yum!

      spore test, good idea, but what would i compare it to?
      know any online resources that could help?
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        Sun, October 21, 2007 - 9:33 AM
        i dont know any online resources, but there are books out there specifically for this with really good life size pictures. my friend has this book, i will ask her and get back to you. i know, chantrells are so freakin good.......and freshly picked! yummy, making me hungry.........
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    Sun, October 21, 2007 - 10:35 AM
    My brother-in-law saw that I was eating some wild mushrooms (ones that I had done MUCH research on!). He got me a wonderful guide:
    __National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms__. It has excellent pictures and all the info about spore prints, etc.

    This is what it says about "Zeller's Bolete"---

    Description: Black to dark olive-brown, dry, wrinkled cap with large, irregular, yellowish pores and reddish to yellowish-tan stalk.

    Cap: 2-4" (5-10 cm) wide; convex to flat with age; margin incurved when young; dry, very powdery, wrinkled to bumpy, becoming smoother; blackish to dark olive-brown, fading to brown, often with reddish margin. Flesh white to yellowish, sometimes bruising blue. Tubes: often deeply sunken with age; olive-yellow, bruising blue. Pores large, yellow, often bruising blue.

    Spores: 12-15 X 4-5 u; elliptical, smooth. Spore print: OLIVE BROWN.

    Edibility: Good Season: Sept. - Oct. in Pacific NW; November--March in California
    Habitat: On ground, in coastal forests and under redwood.

    Lookalikes: B. crysenteron has brownish cap that typically cracks in a quiltlike pattern.

    Comments: This beautiful western bolete has a dark cap with a powdery bloom.

    (For a spore print, I simply get some stiff white paper--but have used paper towel or white rag in a pinch. Put the mushroom head on top of the paper...spore-side down. Leave it for a few hours...or overnight. In the morning, you should have a good spore print.)
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      Sun, October 21, 2007 - 12:08 PM
      maggie, thank you for posting that.
      i do have this guide book, but this mush description doesn't totally cover it. it comes close tho...and i'm beginning to think it's maybe due to different soil types, habitat, weather... different charasteristics may be present then?
      the location and season is correct, but the cap isn't wrinkled or bumpy at all...hmmm...more research required before i eat it.
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        Sun, October 21, 2007 - 12:38 PM
        Looks like a bolete to me. The defining trait of boletes, I believe, is the pores where gills would normally be. I have seen one that looked just like that on an edible mushroom poster, but that hardly qualifies as a postive identification.

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