Scottish Fungi

Morchella · #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2009, 11:48 PM

On holiday (again) and within a few hours of arrival was busy picking chantarelles

B&B has agreed to upggrade my breakfast tomorrow

Also found this group of boletes growing in mixed conifer/deciduous woodland and haven't taken Rogers with me so am a bit stumped. Nearest match I can find is Boletus pinicola but that doesn't sound too likely

Can anyone help???

Thanks

Laura

Morchella · #2 (**permalink**) 03-08-2009, 08:29 AM

Now having used the top tip in the A to Z thread (thanks David) to get scientific names I think I may have a Boletus impolitus. Sadly I have no sense of smell so can't say whether or not it smells of iodine.

Chantarelles for breakfast this morning!

Laura

seamusagleann · #3 (**permalink**) 03-08-2009, 04:28 PM

glad your enjoying scotland's mushroom harvest!! and a chance meeting of another wabber too!! just a pity your not coming back down the west coast, i checked my chantrelles today and they're ready !! have a nice time!!

mollisia · #4 (**permalink**) 03-08-2009, 08:00 PM

Hello,

this is very likely to be Xerocomus ferrugineus, a near relative to Xerocomus subtomentosus. It differs by unchanging flesh which is paler then in X. subtomentosus.

best regards,
Andreas

Morchella · #5 (**permalink**) 15-08-2009, 01:15 PM

Back from holiday now and with internet access, so stand by for a mass photo upload. Thanks for the ID Andreas, does it have a former name? Can't find it in my Rogers.

Seamus, good to meet you. We had an excellent time so hope to come back again some time. Ended up with a load more chantarelles from near Loch Ness but had to share them as the caterer at my cousins wedding forgot to bring the veggie option!

Have a couple of caterpillar photos as well maybe you'll be able to ID when I get them uploaded.

Laura

flaxton · #6 (**permalink**) 15-08-2009, 04:03 PM

Laura
Although it is not in listed in Phillips according to the British Fungus Flora the photo of "lanatus" on page 203 is in fact X ferrugineus. As Andreas said it is very similar to B subtomentosus but the flesh is almost white and does not change on cutting.
I didn't realise it is on the Red Data List as vulnerable.

Mal

Morchella · #7 (**permalink**) 16-08-2009, 09:51 AM

Mal,

Think I must have a different version of the book, my page 203 is full of Cortinarius and I can't find a lanatus at all. Flesh didn't change at all on cutting so definitely sound right.

Thanks

Laura