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So today was my first mushrooming trip of the season. It's a bit late in the year, and that was a bit obvious, so I think it will unfortunately be my last trip this season.

However, I did extremely well. I got two bags of hawk's wing mushrooms (sarcodon imbricatus), a local choice edible, two bags of porcinis (boletus edulis), an internationally-famous choice edible, and three huge bags of chantrelles (catharallus cibarius), which is also internationally known and my personal favorite. I have never gotten that many edible mushrooms in one go, and I am incredibly excited. To top it all off, I picked a bag full of tiny sub-alpine strawberries and raspberries.

I AM GOING TO MAKE SOME COOKERY. SO MUCH COOKERY.

(I am actually really careful about mushrooms; I've been doing this for at least a decade, and I never stick anything in my mouth that I'm not 100% sure about. Don't stick unfamiliar things in your face, and don't eat mushrooms if you don't know what you're doing.)

Reddish brown bitter bolete

Tylopilus rubrobrunneus

Aug. 14th, 2023

St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

Old Man of the Woods

Strobilomyces sp.

This shaggy, dusky mushroom is in the bolete family and can be hard to find because it often blends in with leaf litter or pinecones.

Aug. 15th, 2023

St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

Some kind of bolete mushroom

Boletales

This bolete featured unusually large, bright yellow pores.

There are over 150 described bolete species in the Midwestern United States alone, so sometimes it's a challenge to narrow them down to an exact species ID. It's not an ash tree bolete. I found this one while doing field research in an old growth forest near the Meramec River near swamp white oak, pin oak, cottonwood, silver maple, green ash, persimmon, and hackberry trees. I'm not sure which tree it was associated with.

Aug. 18th, 2023

Arnold, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline