ASH TREE BOLETE

Jack Schmidling Productions, Inc.
18016 Church Road ~ Marengo IL 60152
Phone:815 923 0031 ~ Email:jack@schmidling.com

I have one more mushroom for this year. This is one of the most flavorful mushrooms we can find around here. It pops up sporadically between June and October and we generally can pick them 3 or 4 times during the season.

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ASH TREE BOLETE

(Boletinellus merulioides)

As the name implies, they are symbiotic with ash trees but also maples, both of which are in abundance around here. We find them in the lawn, and in the woods, particularly after a good rain.

Our favorite way of eating them is fried in butter with scrambled eggs. They also make a great soup.

Unlike more common mushrooms, boletes do not have "gills" under the cap. The spores are produced in tightly packed tubes that look sort of like a sponge from the bottom.

An interesting characteristic of this bolete is that shortly after cutting or breaking, the flesh turns blue.

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