King Bolete / Porcini

Boletus edulis

Opens Sep 121d out

Open

Sep 1 – Nov 15

Best

Oct

frost

Nov

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today

Warm rain on high-elevation conifer duff while soil is still warm; the flush follows ~1 to 2 weeks later, then frost and larvae end it.

signal · Antecedent rainfall, soil temperature, elevation. (modeled)

Plate No. 005 · Finley & Bohlman

Tread lightly

The mushroom is only the fruit, but raking the duff to find them tears the mycelial mat that fruits year after year. Cut what's up, leave the ground undisturbed, and never strip a patch.

The read

Massive, dense, nutty. High-elevation Cascade firs and coastal Sitka spruce duff.

The event: Warm rain on high-elevation firs.

What we watch: live feeds

Rainfall Open-Meteo ↗Soil temp NRCS SNOTEL ↗

The Kit

what a forager carries

Gear: Opinel No.08 mushroom knifeREI ↗Nisaku hori-hori trowel-knifeAmazon ↗PNWBUSHCRAFT waxed-canvas pouchmade in WAmakerExcalibur 9-tray dehydratorAmazon ↗
Wear: Xtratuf Legacy bootsREI ↗Grundéns Neptune jacketBackcountry ↗
Reading: All That the Rain Promises and MoreAroraBookshop.org ↗Mushrooms of the Pacific NorthwestTrudell & AmmiratiBookshop.org ↗Fruits of the ForestWinklerBookshop.org ↗

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Sources

What informs King Bolete / Porcini in particular. The shared feeds it reads (tides, weather, water temp) are the live feeds above.

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