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RE: Fungi Friday - Red Mushrooms

in FungiFriday3 years ago

Boletes are pretty tricky. Where I'm at there areat least 40 different species and they seem to grow in one off batches so I rarely can get a good id on them and many look exactly the same. I got tricked into cooking a bitter bolete that looked like an edible white king bolete lol, tasted like burnt rubber and fish lol.

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That sounds unpleasant! Is it true you can taste test russulas and if they're spicy/bitter their inedible?

Yeah russulas are generally easy to identify by their color. There are a couple good edible ones here a green cracked one that you can eat raw and a purple one that requires a bit of cooking. The tan or brown ones taste bad and the red ones give you a stomach ache.