Identifying the Bay Bolete, Imleria badia

This is a great late Autumn edible.
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[@danhadley2676]

My wife and I have just brought a dehydrator and I'm lucky to be living amongst some of the best forest and fields around Kent I've found hundreds of species here and watching your videos are helping me so much I'm literally surrounded by every species you've mentioned in every video it's amazing down here ,many thanks for your content so very appreciated 👊

[@theexplorechanneluk7934]

Thanks for such regular content very informative yet again.

[@WildFoodUK1]

My pleasure :)

[@jonathandeleyser1782]

Man’s impervious to the rain. Thanks for the vid! Found lots of these this year.

[@jordonsouthall60]

The bay bolete is 1 of mine and my partners favourites to find. I work on a golf course that is SSSI, so no chemicals are used. I use that to my advantage when picking mushrooms on my round while maintaining the course.

[@saltydegen]

What an absolutely stunning part of nature, the smell, like pure earth with slight nutty aromas. Those beautiful tones you see when cutting in half. Also glad to see your smily face again Marlo, thanks for all your therapeutic content. We're blessed 🙏❤

[@WildFoodUK1]

Many thanks :)

[@0ptriX]

I love these because as you say, the insects seem to leave them alone

[@toine4535]

Indeed a delicious mushroom, and very recognizable. Greetings from the Netherlands!

[@WildFoodUK1]

Hello there!

[@toine4535]

Hello, love your video's

[@Munchausen007]

Very good summary, I never find any in the South Triangle (Bournemouth - Southampton - Portsmouth) but give another try. Thank You.

[@eddieash1669]

Nice one!

[@jamesholton1949]

These are what I found most this year

[@WildFoodUK1]

That’s a good year then :)

[@arcadia449]

I actually found one last weekend in broadleaf woodland.

[@anitafamily9767]

Hai from Malaysia

[@WildFoodUK1]

Hi :)

[@malmoran8643]

Got to get them before the Deer 🦌 munch them.

[@Tanbro99]

in my area we only get deciduous trees, wish i could find mushrooms like this and other conifer loving mushrooms.

[@rubenh7338]

You can! I tend to find most of mine near oak trees.

[@gixeco]

going tomorrow! They have more bittery smell if I reckon?

[@flowercoal7382]

the smell is actually very aromatic! umami

[@gixeco]

@@flowercoal7382 Interesting! The one I found seems respecting all the criteria here shown, eventually the stem seems a bit thinner. The smell is not that intriguing. It might be just for this particular one, though.

[@WildFoodUK1]

I like the smell, I’d say v mushroomy :) Possibly a xerocomeloid if it has a thinner stem then.

[@gixeco]

@@WildFoodUK1 the team in person, what honor :) Thanks to your comment and Attila's spreadsheet I could start a little research. It seems to be Xerocomellus pruinatus "Flesh yellowish in the cap, yellow in the stipe, blueing strongly (and usually slowly) when exposed to air. Smell not distinctive. Taste not distinctive." Closest plausible tree was a beech.

[@uffo200]

I'm always wary of the blue staining fungi Marlow so can you please tell us if they are similar to any of the ones that make you sick, lookalikes in other words?

[@WildFoodUK1]

Mainly the rubroboletus in the Uk.

[@HotelPapa100]

Can't say that my experience concerning isect damage is the same. I'm relatively new to 'shrooms, and I have never found an imleria badia that wasn't inhabited.

[@papiezguwniak]

Are there still mushrooms around? I'm in the north.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Blewits n velvet shanks for you then :)

[@Kiltoonie]

@@WildFoodUK1 My favourite Blewit spot is just up the road in the woods on a big pile of rotting garden waste. Sadly, the owner has just dumped a new pile of garden waste on it, so I reckon that one will have to wait a year or two ;-)