seeking id of mushrroms purchased in Chinatown San Francisco

[Workman]

They are Pleurotus eryngii, the King Oyster.  A very good mushroom but
not a bolete.

I found some pictures of a commercial growing operation that matches
your mushrooms very well.

http://www.world-mushroom.com/eryngii/e_eryngii.htm

Workman

http://www.sporeworks.com




Mike Maas <docmaas-nospam at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<7fe27vonspthd25u0lmu57tt9lkotsc4vm at 4ax.com>...
> http://www.pbase.com/masimo/mushrooms_from_chinatown
> 
> Don't know what they are. My wife bought them thinking they were
> boletes.  They do look like boletes but no tubes and what appear to be
> the beginnings of gills make me wonder.  I looked at gilled boletes on
> the web but these don't really look like the ones I saw on the web
> either.  
> 
> They tast delicious similar to boletes I harvested this fall but quite
> strong.  Strangely they have almost no odor.  In fact she also bought
> some fresh Shiitake at the same time and they smelled the same so I
> think the smell is probably a result of shipping or storage.
> 
> Anyway if anyone knows what they are I'd like to know.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mike
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