I have always been curious how old man of the woods taste? It looks like a roasted marshmallow, and is very puffy, I feel like the texture would be odd.

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.

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.

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

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?