My first Bolete I think.

[TeresaW]

After not finding one single Bolete anywhere last year, not in my local patch anyway, I've finally found one this year...right outside my window. So, growing in the middle of the grassy bank close to birch trees (which do turn up a good variety usually), there they are. One's quite young, but the other, though small, about 2 inches across is the star. I'm taking a spore print at the moment but could this be B. luridiformis? I'm guessing because of the blue bruising.

[alge]

Hello Teresa,

Could it be Boletus Pruinatus. They have a spotted colour on the stem too, turn blue-green when cut, but yours does have that yellowing at the top of the stem and also a pinkish tinge to the cap margin??

Alex

[TeresaW]

Hmm most of the images I googled are a deeper red on top, but there are some B. Pruinatus looking very very similar to mine. Thank you for that, it's a good starting point.

I only started with fungi last year, and as I said, I've not found a single Bolete until now..so I'm completely new again

[alge]

I was only introduced to B. Pruinatus last year so i've only ever seen half a dozen in the flesh as it were so I could be wildly wrong. Once you get your eye in you will start to see boletus all over the place I think the buff colour most have on the cap disguise them well amongst leaf litter. Morchella's monster bolete find was a bit hard to miss i imagine

[Chris Yeates]

hi

those wide pores and reddish coloration on the stem point more to B. chrysenteron / B. cisalpinus, I think

Chris

[alge]

oops

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by alge

oops

I might be wrong - I lay no great claims to being a boletologist; I can generally do them if I have a specimen - and the literature - to hand (though I might exclude Leccinum from that statement )

C

[TeresaW]

I'll let you know what the spore print throws up, if anything. It does have a wonderful strong woody mushroom smell about it, made my mouth water, not that I'm going to eat it. I'm just please there's another species growing on my doorstep.

I did look for boletes last year, found everything but...and they all had gills! Mind I tramped miles and miles looking for fly agaric last year, only to get back home and find a lovely one at the base of the birches. Got that blister for nothing! It's all part of the fun though

[flaxton]

Just to add to the mix I think the red in the cap and the stipe point more to Xerocomus rubellus

Mal

[TeresaW]

Spore print is muddy brown if that's any help....