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- noun Plural form of
bolete .
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Examples
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Matsutake and boletes are the exceptions, but leave those to more experienced foragers.
Laura Silverman: Mycology Today Laura Silverman 2011
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Matsutake and boletes are the exceptions, but leave those to more experienced foragers.
Laura Silverman: Mycology Today Laura Silverman 2011
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Chanterelles and craterellus, yes -- even boletes, but we missed that season It's about two weeks long around Thanksgiving.
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The candy caps, another kind of mushroom, are sprinkled everywhere, and king boletes will follow soon after; toward the spring (or our version thereof), the horn-of-plentys will be hiding themselves among the detritus of the madrone trees.
All That the Rains Bring Heather McDougal 2007
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The candy caps, another kind of mushroom, are sprinkled everywhere, and king boletes will follow soon after; toward the spring (or our version thereof), the horn-of-plentys will be hiding themselves among the detritus of the madrone trees.
Archive 2007-12-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Wandering high and low through a cemetery with cucumberseed and darkpaisley, picking mushrooms we later identified as black velvet boletes (edibility: good, the book says; we didn't try) (Google image below)
the opposite of PTSD, and other good things asakiyume 2008
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The Chocolate Lady in New York never ceases to introduce me to something new, and this week is no exception with her boletes:
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If I hear them I'll believe we will get a harvest of boletes and that the rains are really here.
I'm Baaaack! 2006
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These are what we refer to as "lesser boletes", mostly Suillus species.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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The Chocolate Lady in New York never ceases to introduce me to something new, and this week is no exception with her boletes:
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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