Common Boletes of Michigan

[Music] bites are a group of mushrooms that have a porous surface and not gills aside from the gild bite it is a large group of mushrooms that have pores not gills and a stem at first it seems like it might be an easy thing to get into and then you discover that there are a lot of attention to detail that you need to know to get from genus to species with bites a lot of information to put in just one video it can seem daunting so rather than cause you to not want to hunt bites I want to show you some bites that are very easy to identify that we can find and eat in Michigan this one I wouldn't necessarily call easy but it's definitely uh moderate this is the gray bolite and if we look at these in here here yeah they look cream color but they really are gray they're hard to find and the distinguishing features of this particular mushroom will be pores not gills a gray colored cap a stem that will stain yellow with age and have dark coffee colored worm holes worm caverns in the stem and it will have very bold reticulation on the Stipe the gry boled is a moderate Oak loving edible species some people really like it some people don't this is actually my first encounter with this particular species ready bolus greasus the reticulation on this stem is a netting and if you were to look at it with a magnifying glass you would see this beautiful network of netting along the stem the flesh is usually cream to white the bug Trails will definitely always be coffee colored and the flavor is usually non-distinct or slightly sweet so rather than go through all the details of all the difficult bites I hope to show you in this video several bites in Michigan that you can start with that are relatively easy to identify the gray bolite edible Oak loving reticulated stocked bite mushroom I come up to the truck and Dawn is picking one of her favorite mushrooms the Chrome footed bolite she calls it the pink bite the pinky she says she's found at least five or six more oh wow look at this cute one oops look at the size of that isn't she pretty and that is definitely yellow oo look at the baby I love the pens should I pick it or leave it yeah pick them pick them that's fresh look how yellow that is it's fresh still got beetles going up the stock hopefully we got some that aren't devoured oh couple more Bab oh that one is pink look how pretty this one is oh she's perfect oh that is pretty she's perfect say there's more one more walk up is that it by that rock over here or was there another one You' seen it's around in here oh there oh right here this one isn't very this one isn't very good no look at her yeah that one's probably bug ridden oh yeah cut it in half and see I KN need to oh yeah that one's not good seen one over here um right there hiding under that brush see it oh I can't see anything can't see anything cuz you're bug mesh how did you find them in the first place they were shiny shiny this one's not very good oh that one's done yep boie I'm happy well I think we got three or four in that mess aren't they pretty never bring a mushroom basket that way you ensure that you find mushrooms how pink they are yeah I like that pen right there that little baby yeah that's definitely pink they're beautiful this one here is rotten and you can see this blue pith right here but next to it I'm hoping and I haven't cut it yet to know next to it I hope is a fresher specimen that will uh demonstrate exactly what makes this mushroom easy to identify this mushroom is called the bluing bolite it's a gyroporus gyroporus cyanis and gyroporus are relatively easy to identify because their stock is pish Hollow now the color on this can be just about any color really in this cream to uh dull yellow to even white now this one has been eaten apart by snails and it's not really in the greatest of shape so it's not the best example to start this video but what makes the bluing bolite easy to identify is the is the Loosely stuffed stock and how fast its cream colored flesh stains blue everywhere on its surface now this isn't edible bolite but this particular one has been fed on and prayed upon by uh several slugs it looks like and so it wouldn't be one that we're going to take home and eat it looks like one board a whole in the top there I'm going to cut this in half and hopefully you can see just how fast this beautiful mushroom stains blue I mean it's so fast a couple other items that you're going to want for learning bites and learning bites I think is something that'll be fun for you and it's not as dangerous as say learning amonitas but learning bites will make you focus in on a lot of really subtle subtle details and descriptive factors that you find in a lot of your guide books so a magnifying glass is one thing that you're going to want to use you're going to want to use it so that you can look at everything on the bite from the pores to the reticulation or not reticulation on the stem scabbers or dots on the stem and with most bites it's important to dig up the base on this species it isn't important to dig up the base because I knew what it was before I picked it but you're going to want to look at the micilia attached to the base on many species of bites so let's go find another easy bite to identify and get on with this introduction to bites in Michigan this one of DA's favorites because it's normally pink when it's fresh it has this pink cap it can dull up to a light brown as it ages it has pinkish scabbers on its stem it has whitish cream pores there's no staining the flavor is mild if you do a taste and spit test and the key identifying feature is this bright bright bright yellow stem right at the base where attaches this is the Chrome footed bolite Dawn calls it the pink bolite you can find it in Conifer Hardwoods it doesn't really matter but it's a pinkish to light brown bolite with cream to white pores and pinkish scabbers on the stem and a bright yellow base that bright Yellow base is the dead giveaway let's go find another easy buite to identify this is a very easy mushroom to learn one thing that makes it really easy to learn is this heavy and Beautiful reticulation on the stem it's bright red with white to yellow streak reticulation somewhat orange where the stip meets the cap and this beautiful beautiful gold or amber colored liquid that comes out we call it mushroom sweat the top of the cap looks like an apple when you're looking down at it that's why we call it the candy apple if you take a taste test of this particular mushroom it's going to have this U kind of to some people it might not be but to me it's a delightful lemony taste the key identifying features of this one of course is red pores not gills reticulated stock red blushing to Orange and a very candy apple red cap a lot of times the margin of this mushroom shows just a hint of fading like it's fading out to a a yellow or a white the pores on this are striking and they do stain blue and then turned black and you cut this Mushroom in half you'll see it start to stain blue and then darken the flesh is a light yellow there's that yellow margin I was talking about but from the top this looks like a shiny candy apple hidden in the leaves and it is a delicious edible mushroom I like mine dehydrated and rehydrated but I have and still do cook this mushroom without dehydrating it first the candy apple bolite or the frost bolite is a very easy mushroom to identify in Michigan I do believe and it's also one of my favorites to find they are everywhere so it's a really common mushroom I and it gets really large I tend to pick these when they're smaller rather than waiting for them to get much bigger than that because they will get much bigger these are a delicious mushroom easy to recognize easy to learn I got an easy Michigan bolite for you guys to see it's an edible it's delicious I can't say that it's rare but it is hard to spot the stature of this mushroom is different than most bites it's tall and slender it's got a really Shaggy Shaggy stock the top is usually just a a bland reddish brown and sometimes with age can get cracking in it I'm going to dig this up a little bit here it'll have white meilia the base it'll have a cream to yellowish pores and reddish brown stock see this coarse coarse reticulation here there's only one other mushroom that resembles This Tall slender coarse reticulation on the Stipe and that one grows around birch trees and has a very red top it's also edible but this is an oak loving B lead in Michigan it's in my mind one of the easier B leads to identify it has a very mild flavor if it has any flavor at all I know I want to take this one home and eat it I usually don't find more than one or two in a general area in this particular case it's not looking good for finding more but we do have more Trail to look at so hopefully we can find another one of these yummy Michigan bades got a couple more easy bites for you guys to look for when you're out there foraging this is the foxy bolite it has scabbers on the stem has usually an orange to reddish top when you cut the base sometimes it'll stain a bluish gray sometimes it won't it has cream to white pores now this mushroom is a good edible but you need to cook it pretty quickly from harvesting otherwise it tends to get mushy you'll find this along conifers now there's another that looks similar to this that has dark scabbers on its stem the cap will be a little darker I might include it in this video but I have to find it first I haven't found it yet and that one is leinum scabrum it's edible as well that one you'll find under Birch but when you're in Michigan a lot of times conifers and birs go hand in hand but the scabbers are a dead giveaway on this as well as the reddish orange cap and it is a thick and heavy mushroom it's really not that bad eating this is a beautiful bullly this is a suis it's pretty easy to identify it has this silvery remnant of a veil right here see me moving it with a knife and a remnant of a veil right here pores are yellow it has a yellow stem with red streaks and the top is usually velvety with yellow cracks and this is referred to as the painted suis it likes white pine it's really easy to recognize because of the Veil the angular yellow pores because it does grow under White Pine and the Very distinct cap and stem painted suis not a bad eater either pretty easy bull to identify let's see if we can find one more easy bolite for this video these are an easy B Lea to identify these are called boletellus centino and that Latin name means golden intestine now there is one that looks like this I'll leave its name in the description but it's also edible the only difference is the zero chelis that looks just like this isn't anywhere near as tasty and I can't say that this is a very tasty mushroom but it is edible and it is decent but this one grows on wood it has a brown velvety cap when it's young and then cracks with age it has pores not gills the pores are usually yellow and then tinting kind of a a green Hue once it ages and they will stain blue to blue green this bite prefers to grow on wood and it's lookalike prefers to grow on the ground not that either can't do either both are edible though that's what makes this bite an easy one to identify boletellus centino it's not a bad edible if you do eat this one remove the pores just pull them off the bottom like so and eat the Hat let's see if we can put another easy one on the [Music] camera [Music]

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Keywords: Retiboletus griseus, gray bolete, grey bolete, Gyroporus cyanescens, bluing bolete, cornflower bolete, Harrya chromapes, chrome footed bolete, Exsudoporus frostii, Frost's bolete, candy apple bolete, Aureoboletus russellii, Russell's bolete, Leccinum vulpinum, foxy bolete, Boletus chrysenteroides, Suillus spraguei, boletes, mushrooms, foraging boletes, hunting boletes, bolete, foraging mushrooms, foraging wild edibles, hunting mushrooms

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Length: 24min 3sec (1443 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2024