Bolete and Miller confirmation please

[Bill S]

Hi folks

I've found lots of these and know they have been around for about 3 weeks now, but have only just been able to investigate and get some pictures. I don't think they look like any of the edible boletes but I'm intrigued as to what they are as there are many of them around and they are growing to quite a size - easily 20cm across the cap. They have a yellow pore and flesh which rapidly bruises blue-black on cutting. Where they are growing they seem to be limited to being underneath beech. Where the pores shed spores they are quite orange (2nd photo). And they are very solid and robust.





In one patch where the trees are slightly thicker and there are possibly other tree species besides beech, there are many of these which could be the Miller? I'm doing a spore print overnight but from the picture is there anything which points against it being the Miller? It does have an unusual smell (difficult to place what it smells of, there is a mushroomy background smell but and it doesn't bruise on cutting. Not much to go on but I a friend regularly eats these so will get a confirmation from him too if it looks like a possibility.




Many thanks in advance.

Bill

[mollisia]

Hello Bill,

the Boletus is Boletus luridus.
What concerns the Miller, it indeed looks very much like it. But for a sincere confirmation just one picture from the underside is too scanty in my eyes.

best regards,
Andreas

[Bill S]

Thanks for the ID on the Bolete Andreas. Regarding the other species, the spore print (once I'd started again, the cat disturbed the first one) was a brown - ochre colour, definitely not pink, so not the Miller. Also, my friend confirmed that the smell wasn't right for the Miller.

Thanks again.

Bill