Is this a Larch Bolete?

[heatherannej]

Have I got this correct? A Larch Bolete?
Taken just off Craigvinean car park near Dunkeld, Perthshire. Head around 5 inches across.

[Chris Yeates]

hi

I think this looks very like something extremely exciting!. I've never seen what I think this could well be Phaeolepiota aurea the one someone has come up with the English name Golden Bootleg for (!). . . where's PMG when you want her?

If it is this fungus it's a Red Data Book fungus and a great find. You can see from the photograph it's no bolete - it's got gills!!

I'll be back . . .

Chris

[heatherannej]

If you are right then I think I am hooked on this lark. Perhaps walking and photography do mix afterall? ha ha

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi

I think this looks very like something extremely exciting!. I've never seen what I think this could well be Phaeolepiota aurea the one someone has come up with the English name Golden Bootleg for (!). . . where's PMG when you want her?

If it is this fungus it's a Red Data Book fungus and a great find. You can see from the photograph it's no bolete - it's got gills!!

I'll be back . . .

Chris

i think from what little you can see of the underside, there appears to be a pore syrface rather than gills,
if that is so, then i would guess at a Suillus sp, would not like to say which one though
Brian

[NickCantle]

Definitely Phaolepiota aurea. No ring is as distinctive as that. Like an oversize Cystoderma. That's three WAB finds of this rare species in little over a month, which bodes well for it.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by heatherannej

If you are right then I think I am hooked on this lark. Perhaps walking and photography do mix afterall? ha ha

the distribution map is at: NBN Gateway: Golden Bootleg (Phaeolepiota aurea) grid map

Nick is there some easy way to point HeatherAnne at the thread re PMG's great find?

Chris

[heatherannej]

I am so chuffed .... I am definitely getting into this. Thank you all so much for helping a novice like myself and I promise to improve on my shots :-)

[NickCantle]

Yes, it's linked below;

Golden Bootleg In Wigan

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by heatherannej

Have I got this correct? A Larch Bolete?
Taken just off Craigvinean car park near Dunkeld, Perthshire. Head around 5 inches across.

you asked if this was a Larch bolete, which if thats what it is, would have pores on the undersurface,
both Chris and Nick agree that it is a Phaeolepiota aurea, which would have gills,

which of the two does this one have,(i only ask because the limited view of the underside, looks like a pore surface to me(maybe i should have gone to specsavers)

Brian

[KeenTeen17]

looks like pores to me (don't want to burst any bubbles though)