Fungal Boogie is a new CD by Zoe Wood and Larry Evans features 13 songs about fungi, edible and otherwise, in a range of musical styles that includes blues, calypso, polka, and rockabilly. Click here to hear a sample of the CD on this mushroom.

The Boletaceae, or Boletus Family of mushrooms, are all fleshy mushrooms with central stipes and caps. The spore bearing surface is composed of tiny pores. There are three main genera of Boletes here in the Northern Rockies. Boletus, with dry caps and firm flesh, is famous for several edible and a couple toxic members. Suillus, the Slippery Jack, is distinguished by its slimy cap and soft flesh. Finally, Leccinum species are distinctive for their scabrous stipes and sudden staining reactions.

To see pictures of more members of this group identified, click here.

  This is the very colorful and scary looking and nonedible Boletus hemichrysus. Turned up this year in Crested Butte, CO.