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02-01-2009, 06:11 PM
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| | | Lactarius ID
Does anyone have any idea what this good old Lactarius is?   |
02-01-2009, 06:22 PM
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| | | Re: Lactarius ID
Are these two photographs of different specimens KT?
The one on the right looks like it might be L. blennius. Was it growing near Beech? |
02-01-2009, 06:24 PM
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| | | Re: Lactarius ID
Quote:
Originally Posted by NickCantle  Are these two photographs of different specimens KT?
The one on the right looks like it might be L. blennius. Was it growing near Beech? | they were the same species. the lighting was awful for the first photo but I did a bit of tweaking and walked further back and used flash. then cropped the image to actually get the proper colour of the mushroom
it was actually in a hedgerow with a load of young trees / shrubs, hawthorn, rhododendron. there might have been a beech in there somewhere but no big mature ones.! |
02-01-2009, 06:27 PM
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| | | Re: Lactarius ID
When uploading images of fungi, as you know, colour is important. Uploading two images of the same fungi which are two completely different colours is just asking for trouble  
Describe, the best way you can, which is the photograph that represents the true colour of the specimens shown. |
11-01-2009, 12:42 PM
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| | | Re: Lactarius ID
Hallo,
I think - without being sure of course - that it might be Lactarius hortensis (formerly Lactarius pyrogalus), which is a micorizal species exclusively confined to hazel nut.
For the distant gills only L. hortensis/pyrogalus, L. pyrogalus/circellatus or L. flexuosus are possible. The last one is micorhizal to Picea and has a clear zonate cap. For the first two I would opt for L. hortensis, because the gill colour on the first seems natural and is a bit darker as it would be in L. circellatus, The cap lacks violet-greyish colour in the first picture (though in the flashed picture there are ...), and the leaf on the left side seems to be more likely a Corylus leaf then a Carpinus leaf.
best regards,
Andreas |
11-01-2009, 07:28 PM
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| | | Re: Lactarius ID
sorry if I've confused you but they are both the same species. I just messed up with the lighting on the first photo   |
11-01-2009, 08:01 PM
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| | | Re: Lactarius ID
Hallo,
in my above posting i missed the word "foto" which is therefor probably not understandable.
It should read:
"For the first two I would opt for L. hortensis, because the gill colour on the first foto seems natural and is a bit darker as it would be in L. circellatus".
best regards,
Andreas | | |
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