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Thank you for help, both of you. There were no birch nearby - they were on the fringe of a stand of alders and a hemlock/fir/cedar forest. Attached is a picture of the broken stem. At this point this is for educational purposes. My house is overflowing with kings and chanterelles right now - hard to compete with those...

Found a couple of these boletes today, growing in a couple inches from a decomposing log holding oysters (in Coastal British Columbia)... My educated guess would be that these are Leccinum scabrum, due to the black reticulations and dark bruising of the tubes. Any input here? And if they are in fact what I assume them to be, how do they taste? Worth drying?

Hi all, I picked a few pounds of nice white chanterelles yesterday and am planning on braising them with a rabbit and herbs for supper tomorrow. Our 10 month old is on solid foods and though my wife and I eat wild mushrooms fairly regularly, we haven't offered Ambrose any at this point. Given that in this dish the meat and the mushrooms are cooked together, it seems that tomorrow he will try his first chanterelle. As a precaution, I am thinking of giving him a little piece from my breakfast omelette, to watch for a reaction before he eats a whole meal of rabbit cooked alongside chanterelles. I am being overly cautious? Adequately cautious? Reckless?? Seems reasonable to me, but I'm not an expert - I just love chanterelles (but my son more).

Thank you for this additional, an very useful information vitog, and for your warning Dave. I cooked up a small sample last night and my wife and I both tried it with our supper. Neither of us experienced any ill effects over night, but neither of us loved it either. It took the rabbit stock that i cooked it in really well, but the actual mushroom flavour was kind of underwheming, like a raw supemarket button mushroom. But maybe it's just because these were following an amazing Bolete pizza... I'll keep my eye open for a younger specimen, and try again!

Thanks all! Grouse hunting was a bust - just one bird, which I was too slow to even get a shot at. Apparently it's not a plentiful year in my area (but that is no excuse foe my poor hunting skills). Alas, I went looking for one chicken of the woods, but came out with another!

I forgot to mention that it was growing on a very rotten stump, and were on day three of rain after a long period without.

First of all, allow my to introduce myself as this is my first post. I hail from the Pacific Northwest, in a suburb of Vancouver, BC. I'm a beginner picker and haven't really expanded my repertoire from king boletes and white chanterelles. That said, I've been taking lots of pictures of most mushrooms I find, for the ID'ing exercise. I look forward to being a part of the community. I was out grouse hunting today and came across this shelf. I believe it is a sulfur shelf, however it does not have the light margin, and isn't as swollen as most pictures I've seen. Hmmm... Thanks in advance for your help!