Several years ago, I found my outdoor picture-taking adventures focused on fungi, not normally in my mental viewscape. Conditions were perfect for ‘shroom growth, and I discovered them scattered across the forest floor. Even at their best, though, some fungi are basically rather ugly….
What kind, you ask? I can’t remember about the underside of this one, but my guess is it’s a boletus, the kind with a spongy underside rather than gills. For you fans of cooking, or of Mario Batali, the Italian porcini is known botanically as a Boletus edulus, and there are other tasty boletes.
But maybe I’m repeating myself!
25 May 2006 at 6:44 am
kayak woman says:
I wonder if that mushroom is related to my grandmother, Bolette.
25 May 2006 at 7:30 am
Sammy says:
those frenchies…
25 May 2006 at 9:34 am
kayak woman says:
Danish, actually. And not a blood relation, since she married my grandfather the year before I was born or thereabouts.
25 May 2006 at 11:15 am
Sammy says:
See how complicated genetics are? On another topic, just what are Froggy’s genetics? Product of a short-lived relationship between a nightmare and the moon? Wheee-oooo.