My wife and I made a short mushrooming excursion to Lake Lundsjön after lunch. Little more than half an hour in the woods garnered us only four species, but huge amounts of one: velvet bolete. We went home early simply because we didn't need more mushrooms. I'm stewing them with cream. Never had shingled hedgehog before.
- Velvet bolete, Sandsopp, Suillus variegatus
- King bolete, Stensopp/Karl Johan, Boletus edulis
- Red russula, Tegelkremla, Russula decolorans
- Shingled hedgehog, Fjällig taggsvamp, Sarcodon imbricatus
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Martin, how lovely! I used to find king boletes in the woods in Muskoka (on the Canadian Shield, much like Finland I think), in the piny woods on sandy soil where some trees were taken down.
Unfortunately I didn't know enough about mushrooms to know if they were good to eat.
To my knowledge very few bolete species in Sweden are poisonous, and those that are are dramatically coloured in scarlet, and very rare.
A bolete is a mushroom with a dense carped of spore-producing cylinders under its hat. No lamelles.
I liked the hedghogs, but the boletes are are sublime. I actually like them dried (the distinctive flavor/perfume seems to become more pronounced) and then grated onto a nice pasta with garlic, parmesan and pepper. Mmm.getting near dinner.
Oh, I used to love hedgies! When I was a kid, I used to love picking them, too, as they are so easily recognized (and because the "hedgehog quills" felt like the back of my dad's neck after he'd had a haircut! LOL)