boletus
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Origin of boletus
1595–1605; < New Latin; Latin bōlētus a mushroom
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In a fruitful season, common Washington mushrooms include chanterelles, boletus, morels, porcini, lobster mushrooms, Pacific Northwest matsutake and oyster mushrooms.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
Great-grandmother Busia from a village in northern Poland used boletus to give czarnina, duck blood soup, the flavor of the forest.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023
In a typical, fruitful season, mushroom varieties commonly found in Washington include chanterelles, boletus, morels, porcini, lobster mushrooms, Pacific Northwest matsutake and oyster mushrooms.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
We hiked the tundra hills above the house, always on the lookout for brown bears, our eyes trained for boletus mushrooms, mossberries, blueberries, cranberries, fiddleheads, pushki and sorrel.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2020
The stem is rather long, proportionately more so than in the granulated boletus.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
The variety of small, beautifully-shaped ferns, lichens, and boleti, made the place quite a museum of cryptogamic plants.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
Was that the devil's toadstool, which the schoolmaster had marked on the board at school as poisonous, or was it one of the dainty boleti edules, which her father liked so much?
From Absolution by Viebig, Clara
Wash and remove the pores from the boleti.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
On leaving Neuvic I noticed a woman carrying to the baker's a large dish of edible boleti, known to the French as cépes.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison
There is a family of fungi called the boleti, sir, and you can easily tell them, because they are all full of pores, or little holes, underneath, while the ordinary agarics have gills like this.”
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
By the way, there are chanterelles and boletuses to be gathered all the autumn, and that will be an amusement for Mother.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance
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