Observation 24155: Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A. Dick
When: 2009-08-09
Collection location: Wayne National Forest, Athens Co., Ohio, USA [Click for map]
No specimen available
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User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 11.38 | 2 | (shroomydan) | |||||
Promising | 2.0 | 4.58 | 1 | (Noah) | |||||
Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.55 | 85.10% |
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wow! that’s quite the colorful bolete!
By: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
2009-08-09 07:59:51 PDT (-0700)
Unlike other purple boletes, this one is not bitter. In fact, the flavor is distinctly sweet, more like saccharine than sugar though. I suspect this mushroom might make a good edible.