Returning to the introductions of the sensation of wild mushroom foraging from the article Fungophobe or Fungophile, meet the king of the fungi kingdom, the Bolete. The King Bolete, Boletus edulis, is ...

If you live where you can collect mushrooms, you are in nirvana right now. Boletus edulis – known as Porcini/Italian, Cepes/French, and Steinpilz/German – has been “blooming.” It has been spotty, but ...

The Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah has published a provocative new paper in the journal New Phytologist that describes their work with the much beloved mushroom, Boletus edulis, ...

fungi is fabulous eating. The French call it a cepe, the Germans say Steinpilz, and the Italians famously prefer porcini, but all search the forests for this earthy, richly flavored mushroom, which ...

Dried porcini mushrooms—the old Sunshine Grocery stocked them in bulk in glass jars for about $5.99/ounce. The last time I bought porcini, at a well-known, hyphenated food-and-cookware store, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A lot of people are frustrated by Colorado’s weeks-long spate of rainy, cold weather, but Denver Botanic Gardens mycologist Vera Stucky Evenson is not one of ...

Spring porcini, among the most prized and delicious of wild mushrooms, have started their brief season at a few local farmers markets. Most people think of porcini and kindred fungi, known as boletes, ...

Up in Mendocino last weekend for the Santa Cruz Fungus Federation Mushroom Hunt. Based at Albion Field Station, just south of Mendocino, 95 eager participants split up and head out into the foggy ...

1) This species is circumglobal. It is more likely that it was already in the writer's garden in a mycorrhizal relationship with a nearby pine than tracked in on his shoes via spores. 2) Amanita ...

A genetic survey of porcini mushrooms across the Northern Hemisphere found that these delicious fungi evolved in surprising ways -- contrary to the expectations of many who think that geographic ...