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Boletes – May 27 2021
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Identifying Cottonwood Trees
One of the key habitats for early-season mushroom finding in the Pacific Northwest is with cottonwood trees. Western Washinton has fewer deciduous trees than the east coast, so identification is easier. Our cottonwood species is Populus trichocarpa. To find black cottonwood, start by finding areas near rivers, streams, and lakes. The leaves of cottonwoods quite…
Fungal Feeding
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Tools for finding mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest
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The Boletales Order
There are over 100 bolete species in the Pacific Northwest. Identification is easiest when one has a general sense of the various major groupings of boletes. I created an interactive treemap to help navigate through the different groupings of mushrooms within the Boletales order. See the video below for a better explanation. Explore The Boletales…