{"id":12533,"date":"2011-08-26T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:34:29","slug":"morning-eye-candy-of-a-different-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/08\/science\/morning-eye-candy-of-a-different-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Of A Different Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith &amp; Thiers described this mushroom, <em>Boletus hortonii<\/em>, honorifically for Charles Horton Peck, former New York State Botanist, who recognized the mushroom under a different name. It is a porcini in a very, <em>very<\/em> broad sense. I took the picture last week when it was fruiting at the Garden. It is widespread in the Northeast, though uncommon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"12535\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/08\/science\/morning-eye-candy-of-a-different-kingdom\/attachment\/boletus-hotonii\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E5700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1313447674&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.14285714285714&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Boletus hortonii\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii-1024x768.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12535\" title=\"Boletus hortonii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii.jpg\" alt=\"Boletus hortonii\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/boletus-hotonii-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Boletus hortonii<\/em> (photo by Roy Halling)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roy E. Halling, PhD is Curator of Mycology at the Institute of Systematic Botany at The New York Botanical Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special Morning Eye Candy from NYBG Curator of Mycology, Roy E. 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