Boletus sensibilis is fairly common and looks and smells as if it is delicious.  However, some people cannot eat this mushroom others can.  I tried it myself last year and found it smelled curry-like, but was otherwise tasteless.  The couple who cooked it up for us had been eating it for years without any problems.  I had no bad reaction, nor did the other people who ate it.  We didn’t eat much though, observing the caution to taste just a small amount one’s first time.  I should point out that it is on record that one family got muscarine poisoning from eating B. sensibilis, characterized by constricted pupils, nausea, vomiting and exhaustion. (Michael Beug).  It took several days for them to recover.  048-001

« Boletus bicolor is a red and yellow medium to large bolete. The yellow pore layer is very shallow. The apex of the stem is yellow while the base is colored like the cap. There may be a few different varieties of Boletus bicolor. I’ve heard it said that Boletus bicolor doesn’t stain blue, but the yellow pore surface can stain bright blue. The flesh, however, is slower to stain and when it does it is a comparatively pale blue color. The two-colored bolete appears mainly in summer and is a prized edible. Not everyone can tolerate eating them though and these people may experience stomach upset and diarrhea. It is mycorrhizal with oaks and other hardwoods. 047-001
EDIBLE MUSHROOMS & POISONOUS LOOK-A-LIKES by Dianna Smith
Red-pored Boletes and Boletus subvelutipes: The cap of this mushroom is often red and as such can be confused by beginners with Boletus bicolor - if you don’t notice that the pores are supposed to be yellow rather than red. There are red-pored boletes that are edible - such as Boletus frostii. And I have heard of mycologists who have eaten the black to dark indigo staining Boletus subvelutipes without any problem, but most books discourage you from eating red-pored boletes like this one. There may be several species that look very similar to B. subvelutipes in the east like Boletus discolor. This species has a fine hairy red tomentum at its base. 049-001 »