Birch Boletes wild mushrooms

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These are Birch Boletes(Boletus comes form the greek word Bolos for lump of clay ), I found them growing in a fairy ring around the base of ,you guessed it a Birch tree (Leccinum scabrum)for eating you must know your mushroom well as some are edible and some are slightly toxic .In Irish mythology the Birch tree is a sacred tree and is one of the trees that begin the Ogham Alphabet an ancient irish form of secret writing with multiple meanings Beithe(beh) Birch ,Luis(lish) (rowan tree(Caorthann in modern irish ) but originally meaning a healing herb(Lus) and Nion(Nin) - derived from Nin (a fork/forked one/lofty one)The Ash tree or the forked branch of the Ash (also referred to as part of a weavers beam ) Many dont know that there were different types of Ogham writing this was Tree Ogham only .

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