They’re delicious. The one time so far that I found bear’s head tooth in the wild, I only found a small one that fit in the palm of my hand. I fried it up, nevertheless, and when I woke up the next morning, my brain felt pleasantly tingly. Regardless, I’d be happy to see it for taste alone.

What a gorgeous spread, though!

Strobilomyces strobilaceous, or the nearly indistinguishable and also edible Strobilomyces confusus.

I’m in Pennsylvania, USA. They’re Strobilomyces strobilaceous, an edible black bolete known as old-man-of-the-woods.

No adjustments at all! The cinnabars practically glow. Wish I had better camera equipment to capture them in situ.

My first time finding these absolute beauties. I’m not sure if they’re Cantharellus corallinus or Cantharellus cinnabarinus.

I think what we find mostly is Cantharellus flavolateritius.

Thanks for the reminder. I’d better stick to enjoying them with my eyes alone in most of the places I’ve been seeing them.

Ah, yes, I’ve had the canned ones! They’re pretty tasty. I tried a deer mushroom once, when I found one that wasn’t yet full of bugs…it was okay, but very skippable.

It has a good strong somewhat meaty flavor and a pleasantly firm texture. The little hairs/scales wilt into the rest when the heat hits them and are not really distinguishable. The stem is really tough and fibrous, so I discarded it, and merely sliced up and fried the cap. Recommend harvesting ones that still have a whitish pore surface; if it’s turned black, they’ll be too old.

Cracking green russula and old man of the woods.

Beautiful dusty purple laccaria

Fascinating! Hmm, they remind me of deer mushrooms, I wonder if they taste similar?

Ah, like the smaller cracked-cap guys with the usually slender stem? I think I’ve seen a few of those, and never very large fruitings at once, either. Understandable.

I tried plugging what I could from your pictures into my bolete book and you may wish to consider Boletus nobilissimus or similar. I assume no bruising or staining anywhere, and you found it in mixed hardwoods.

I trimmed the stems until I saw no more bug tunneling, so they were really not too bad yet! Of course, with such numbers, at least SOME of them will be good…

Thanks! I was happy to come here and share it where people would appreciate their…unique charm!

I feel you on that! A late freeze wrecked all our local peaches for the season 😭