Hog mushroom

by AnnaJo Vahle

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20.000 x 16.000 inches

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Hog mushroom

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AnnaJo Vahle

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We recently had quite a but of rain. I noticed quite a lot of mushrooms beneath my oak tree in my front yards. Fortunately, I was able to take some close-up photographs of some of them this morning. A few minutes later, the lawn guy came and mowed them.

Boletus edulis ( English: penny bun, cep, porcino or porcini) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus Bolets. The fungus grows in deciduous and coniferous forests and tree plantations, forming symbiotic extomycorrhizal associations with living trees by enveloping the tree'[s underground roots with sheaths of fungal tissue.

Common names for B. edulis vary by region. The standard Italian name, porcino means porcine. Fungo porcino in Italian echoes the term suilli, literally “hog mushrooms.” This was a term used by Ancient Romans and is still in use in southern Italian terms for this species. The derivation has been ascribed to the resemblance of young fruit bodies to piglets, or to the fondness pigs have for eating them.

The cap of this mushroom is 7-30 cm (2.8-11.8 in) broad at maturity. Slightly sticky to touch, it is convex in shape when young and flattens with ages. The color is generally reddish-brown fading to white in areas near the margin. It continues to darken as it matures. The stipe, or stem, is 8-23 cm (3.1-9.8 in) thick—rather large in comparison to the cap. It is club-shaped, or bulges out in the middles. It is finely reticulated on the upper portion, but smooth or irregularly ridged on the lower part. The under surface of the cap is made of thin tubes. This is the site of spore production. They are 1 to 2 cm (0,4 to 0.8 in) deep and whitish in color when young, but mature to a greenish-yellow.

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June 23rd, 2019

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