Tylopilus felleus

Found in Western Germany

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  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That is so cool. It looks like the kind of mushrooms in illustrations for kids books or in fantasy games.

    Because a lot of the kids books I grew up with were from Europe, and I didn’t live there, I’d see these depictions of nature that never resembled the biome that I lived in. For years I always assumed the environments depicted were just part of the illustration style and magical setting, and they didn’t exist like that in real life. This bolete is for sure something that popped up in those illustrations that I thought was fictional or stylised.

    The internet keeps showing me, even after all this time, that the illustrations were pretty damn accurate and that the real world is the magical setting.

    What a great find, thanks for sharing it!

    • d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.deOPM
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      1 year ago

      I totally get that, it’s the same form me! Before I started being interested in and actually looking for these boletes, I had no idea. These depictions of big brown mushrooms growing between moss somewhere in the woods were always more of a fantasy thing for me.

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        1 year ago

        Haha, I actually have. They’re an introduced species here that may well be ‘pest’ status for how well it has acclimated. No giant twisty chunky boletes though!

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      1 year ago

      Haha I can too, if you look closely you can see I broke off a piece in order to identify it. Tastes horrible!

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      1 year ago

      No, I think that would be the scarletina bolete.

      see here

      Although I am not sure, I didn’t cut it and it’s the first one I saw.

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        1 year ago

        I found one this week and it didn’t immediately oxidize when I cut it.

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            1 year ago

            I cut it to give the cut part a little lick as I already had my suspicion that it might be a bitter bolete.