From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   tree wrote:   
   > "riburr" wrote:   
   >> Picked and pulled/sliced up a bowlful of stuff from the yard; Golden   
   >> Chaterelles, Black-Staining Polypore and a couple different boletes.   
   >> Everything but the Chanterelles had flesh that darkened on cutting or   
   >> pulling apart.  Mushrooms were sauteed first, then added to home fried   
   >> potatoes and onions.   
   >   
   > Were the boletes of the Leccinum type? I'm seeing a lot of orange birch   
   > bolete under birch (surprisingly enough) this year.   
   >   
   > All that black stuff's got to be good for your guts.   
   >   
      
   One of the boletes was, tentatively, a big, meaty Boletus luridus.  The   
   other one was something similar to B. bicolor but smaller (B.   
   campestris?).  I was trying to find out what the dark pigment is in   
   Meripilus sumstinei, but really didn't find anything.  It will stain   
   your fingers dark.  The staining, I guess, means the pigment is binding   
   to proteins such as keratin found on the skin surface.   
      
      
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