giant mushroom Id - not cep/penny bun

[KeenTeen17]

I found this giant mushroom at the bottom of a neighbour's garden - it was growing in a small row of mature beech trees .

I didn't have my camera with me at the time. so I had to make do with my phone.

It doesn't look like boletus edulis so what is it?

[NickCantle]

Pretty difficult to say with that photo (No offense of course). They are pores and not gills aren't they?

[KeenTeen17]

It is a bad photo - I know! I didn't have my camera and my phone's camera is awful

from what I can salvage from the photo - it looks like pores

[NickCantle]

Did you gather any other information? Did it colour when bruised or cut? Did it smell of anything distinctive?

[KeenTeen17]

no sorry - I will try and go back sometime in the next week - shall inform you and will take better photo

[NickCantle]

I think you'll return to a writhing mass of gunge! Looks to be already past its best so I doubt if it'll still have a structure like it does there when you revisit! I've really no clue as to the identification. The only Boletes I know to grow to such size (In my experience) are Boletus edulis and Tylopilus felleus

Nick

[fairplay]

Boletus radicans can grow that big - found 9 on Saturday, under Oaks along a verge. Most were about 20cm across.

But this doesn't seem to be manly enough, radicans is more bun shaped, almost hiding the stipe completely, so I have no idea what you have there.

It does look interesting though, seemingly to have a cross between gills and pores - which would make it special.

If you do go back, take some disposable gloves with you (nick some from a garage forecourt) cos it will probably stink rotten, but worth checking to see if any more are about.

Neil.

[KeenTeen17]

I am going tomorrow - and will upload photos as soon as I can.

do you think it will last till then?

if not

[mykonik]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Boletus radicans can grow that big - found 9 on Saturday, under Oaks along a verge. Most were about 20cm across.

But this doesn't seem to be manly enough, radicans is more bun shaped, almost hiding the stipe completely, so I have no idea what you have there.

It does look interesting though, seemingly to have a cross between gills and pores - which would make it special.

If you do go back, take some disposable gloves with you (nick some from a garage forecourt) cos it will probably stink rotten, but worth checking to see if any more are about.

Neil.

Having a 'cross between gills and pores' would make it a Phylloporus sp. - which it isn't - are we looking at the same picture ?? I can only (just) see pores !

I also thought that it might be Boletus radicans like you Neil but the photographs really don't allow one to say much - howver it is the time of year for B. radicans so it's a possibility.


Nick

[NickCantle]

Definitely pores Yellow pores