Talk:Boletales

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is it Boletes or Boletales? Text uses "boletes", but article is named "boletales". -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick

Bolete is the common name. Boletales is the scientific name. I'll go make that clear in the article. - Rei


Boletales is an 'order' which is a high-level classification and includes more than just Boletes! It also includes gilled mushrooms such as Paxillus and Gomphidius. I think that Boletes correspond to the family Boletaceae (plus the newer small family Gyroporaceae which used to be considered part of Boletaceae).

So I have made a new page 'Boletaceae' and moved the following text there. I hope you agree with this change.

Strobilomyces 16:36, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)


Moved text:

Boletes are a relatively safe group of mushrooms for human consumption (none are known to be deadly to adults), provided that one:

  1. Eats only young specimens
  2. Avoids mushrooms with red or orange pore surfaces
  3. Avoids those that stain or bruise blue to green (a common trait)
  4. Avoids all Leccinium species with an orange cap

You can eat mushrooms and they are good for you.

Two of the best common edible boletus however are bay boletus, whose gills bruise blue-green, and orange birch boletus, which is a Leccinum (not Leccinium) with an orange cap and which bruises a bluish grey (but which should not be eaten raw)

Note that to be safe, a positive identification should always still be made before consumption. Additionally, just because something is edible doesn't mean that it should be eaten, or will taste good at all.


I removed the species count. With the addition of the false truffles, earthballs, and all kinds of other stuff to Boletales, I'm pretty certain the "70 species" reference is firmly out-of-date. Serpent's Choice 23:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Boletes," "Boletales," confusion[edit]

First, the authority is

Gilbert, E.J. 1931. Les Livres du Mycologue Tome I-IV, Tom. III: Les Bolets. :1-254

He included gilled species in the order. If some one wants a copy of it let me know.

Second, the bolete mycologists that I know use "bolete" as a general name for any member of the Boletales. Also, pigment data placed quie a few gasteroid and secotioid species into the order well before any molecular data. In fact, Rhizopogon was placed there before molecular data, partially with pigment data I believe, just like Chamonixia.

I also do not understand why the defunct Strobilomycetaceae is mentioned. M.E.Nuhn (talk) 00:59, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Boletales. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 13:54, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Boletales. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:10, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]