{"id":2569,"date":"2013-05-27T20:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:15:08","slug":"rhubarb-and-custard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/rhubarb-and-custard\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb and Custard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2556\" alt=\"Rhubarb Bolete\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-018-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-018-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-018.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I first started trying to identify this colourful mushroom, I thought it was going to be Plums and Custard (<em>Tricholomopsis rutilans<\/em>), but I noticed that it had yellow pores rather than gills, so it is actually a Rhubarb Bolete (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfram.com\/fungi\/fungi_c\/bolobs_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boletellus obscurecoccineus<\/a><\/em>). \u00a0Apparently it is common in the Southwest, but these are the first I have seen,\u00a0they are also found in Borneo, New Guinea and Japan. \u00a0Rhubarb boletes only grow to 8cm in diameter, so are smaller than the other mushrooms I have been finding. \u00a0 Its edibility is &#8220;unknown&#8221; but its scaly stem is not very attractive looking. \u00a0When I broke a bit off, I was surprised at the whiteness of the flesh and how the spongy pore layer was actually made up of little rods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2557\" alt=\"20130527 024\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-024-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-024.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started trying to identify this colourful mushroom, I thought it was going to be Plums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fungi","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130527-018.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}