21. The species was first described by Charles Horton Peck as " Boletus acidus " in 1905. 22. "Boletus frostii " is a handsome edible bolete mushroom found in North and Central America. 23. It is the predominant carotenoid in the cap of the bolete mushroom " Boletus luridus ". 24. Found in Mediterranean Europe, it was originally described in 1965 as " Boletus lepidus ". 25. "Boletus edulis " has a cosmopolitan distribution, concentrated in cool-temperate to subtropical regions. 26. A wide variety of mushrooms can be seen, many which are edible ( Boletus , Amanita caesarea ). 27. For example, the white flesh of " Boletus chrysenteron " stains lemon-yellow or olive. 28. The British botanist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke called the mushroom the " ringless yellow boletus " in an 1873 publication. 29. When soaked, dried porcini and other kinds of boletus mushrooms yield an essence that has a deliciously intense earthiness. 30. It was originally described by Japanese mycologist Tsuguo Hongo in 1984 as a species of " Boletus ".
