From Matthew Melmon on Facebook yesterday:
— MM: The humidity today is unreasonable. SADNESS. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
In response:
— AZ > MM: Yes, something we’re not used to. But then, predictably, it has brought the boletus mushrooms back to my patio garden. (They will wait underground, for decades if necessary, until there’s warm humid weather, when they will suddenly send their fruiting bodies aboveground, to spread their spores everywhere on passing breezes.)
Recent appearances of the boletes in my garden were noted in postings on this blog, in 11/23, 9/24, and 5/25. The current outbreak is the first one I’ve noticed in August.
August 17, 2025 at 9:03 am |
We have a few puffballs and Amanita muscaria (Soma), but the Amanita phalloides across the street is 12″ in diameter.
August 18, 2025 at 7:10 am |
Wow. Here I get nothing but the one boletus species. In Urbana and Columbus we got the occasional fairy ring, but I don’t know of what species.