From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   Wilson wrote:   
      
   Look up Boletus versipellis and Boletus aurantiacus (Leccinum versipelle   
   and Leccinum aurauriantacum)   
      
   > Thanks Steve. The smaller cap that I'm trying to get a spore print from   
   > has a dry surface this morning. Those pictures were taken with wet   
   > specimens right after the rain. On the larger cap, I easily removed the   
   > tubes which were yellowish all the way through. My Audubon says that the   
   > tubes on the T. ballouii are 'attached and slightly descending stalk.'   
   > The pics show that the tubes aren't descending. What does 'attached'   
   > refer to?   
      
   'Attached' means that the sporangia or gills are attached to the stipe.   
      
   Adnate: gills/sporangia connected to stipe for their full depth;   
   Adnexed: connected to stem by part of the depth of the gills;   
   Decurrent: connected to stipe and running down it;   
   Free: gills not connected to stipe;   
      
   > I have more in the yard, but those in the pics I sliced and dried in the   
   > oven using only the pilot heat overnight.   
      
   I'd dry the tubes too - except in the case of the larger specimen in the   
   first pic, which appears to be attacked by another fungus. (The white area)   
      
   I grind second-rate edible specimens to powder for seasoning in dishes   
   which will be cooked. Remember, it is inadvisable to eat most fungi raw.   
   There are some which are quite safe - many Agaricus, Lactarius volemus   
   and others, but unless you are *SURE*, cook them before eating.   
      
   > Lots of mushrooms out here in Maine right now. Had a couple of nice   
   > meals around some Dentinum repandum.   
      
   Not a genus I have come across, but reading between the lines, Hydnum   
   rapandum. Don't eat these raw!   
      
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