Bolete and Bolete Mould

[solus]

Found these while visiting a well-known National Trust Garden in Gloucestershire last Sunday, 22 August! We were hanging about in one area of the garden waiting for some people to move on so we could take non-peopled photographs when I noticed a couple of Boletes lurking in the flowerbeds. These contained Hardy(?) Fuchsias and were edged by low Box hedges with a mulch of bark chippings, almost definitely originating from inside the wider Garden.

I think this is Boletus Chrysenteron? There was no immediate discoloration of pores or flesh when I broke a piece off one of the caps. The flesh of the cap was creamy-yellow and the cap surface felt a bit like suede.



Anyway, in the neighbouring bed (no more than a couple of feet away) I found another Bolete, infected (is that the right word?) with Bolete Mould Hypomyces chrysospermus. (I hope I've managed to get that one right at least!??) I assume this would have started life as the same species as the un-infected one? The first photo is the cap: as it was close under the hedge I picked it and placed it on top of the Box hedge to photograph it.

[flaxton]

With the still red cap I would say this is likely to be X rubellus and yes Hypomyces chrysospermus is the attacking organism.

Mal

[solus]

Thanks Mal.
Rubellus was one I considered - then dismissed as the new Collins guide describes an "intense red colour that discolours deep blue" and Jordan a "striking red cap" with "buff, unchanging" flesh.

*Sigh*

Well, I am right in saying it's a Bolete!

I didn't bring a sample home as I didn't think the NT would approve of visitors ferreting about in their flowerbeds - as it was, I was getting some very odd looks from other visitors when I was photographing the mouldy one!