Wow, it's time to wake up this thread!
Here in the NorCal foothills it has rained 9" this month.
Last year we had even more rain and it was a bountiful year for boletes, aka porcini.
I found them all around town under oak leaves, madrone and ponderosa duff.
So, we've been checking our spots about once a week and haven't seen much.
I found a furry chanterelle, but those are not good to eat, so not much excitement, until today.
I took a short walk on a hillside that produced well last year and found a couple of young coccora, or calyptroderma.
These are amanitas and not for beginners. They are highly prized in Italy and immigrants who came over with the gold rush era have been harvesting them. Friends who are fifth generation residents learned about coccoras from them.
I continued my quick walkabout and also found a "butter bolete", likely a butyriboletus persolidus. I plan to slice and dry this one.
I just used some of last years dried porcini to make a nice wild mushroom gravy which will come with us for our Thanksgiving trip to the East Side.
2021 RAM 3500 Crew 4x4, 6.4 hemi/8 speed trans with 4.10 gears, Timber Grove bags, Falken Wildpeak 35" tires.
OEV Aluma 6.75 flatbed, Bundutec Odyssey camper on order for 2024
For this year we're still using our 2008 FWC Hawk with victron DC-DC charger, 130w solar, MPPT controler
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