Bolete identification please

metalmickey · #1 (**permalink**) 01-08-2010, 03:23 PM

Hi Just been for wander inthe local woods and came across these.

Suede bolete?

thanks

neil

Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 01-08-2010, 04:09 PM

hi - and welcome to WAB

these are (dare one say) a bit 'gone over' and - as they say in Yorkshire 'full o' mawks'; so one may well not get any colour changes present in fresh specimens

I would suggest Boletus badius (bay bolete)

cheers

Chris

mollisia · #3 (**permalink**) 01-08-2010, 09:02 PM

Hello Neil,

if you have those fruitbodies still, could you make some more fotos please, I would like to see the stipe surface. Can you also have a look how the flesh colour changes? In the fotos it seems reddening, but it should darken further and become nearly blackish with the time (one hour perhaps).
I think your fungi are Leccinum crocipodium. It grows under oaks in warm and calcareous areas.
Here in Germany this species has season now and it seems to have a astonishing good year!

best regards,
Andreas

Andy Overall · #4 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello Neil,

if you have those fruitbodies still, could you make some more fotos please, I would like to see the stipe surface. Can you also have a look how the flesh colour changes? In the fotos it seems reddening, but it should darken further and become nearly blackish with the time (one hour perhaps).
I think your fungi are Leccinum crocipodium. It grows under oaks in warm and calcareous areas.
Here in Germany this species has season now and it seems to have a astonishing good year!

best regards,
Andreas

I would second that Andreas. L. crocipodium has been fruiting in my area now for the past 2 weeks, under oak, however not on particularly calcareous soil.

Andy