Saturday #Sponge day!

Check out these beautiful Boletes that have sponge like pores instead of gills!

Almost all members of the larger Boletaceae family have pores or tubes instead of gills which make them an easy family to identify.

There are about two hundred and fifty Boletes worldwide with about eighty identified in the UK which, with only a handful to avoid due to toxicity, leaves a good amount of edible mushrooms that can be safely identified for consumption.

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