Boletus Erythropus ??

[yanto1410]

Hi. I've trawled through hundreds of Gallery pages and would like confirmation that this is Boletus Erythropus. It looked like a huge bowl of chocolate custard. The "bowl" was about 8" across. The whole fungus stood about 8/9" high and it was at the base of a silver birch (I think) which can be seen in the background of one of the pics. Will post pics as soon as I can.
Thanks
Pics are in "unidentified fungus" Gallery - "trial_006" and "trial_007"
P.S. If anyone can attach them to this thread feel free, tried to follow instructions, but obviously went wrong somewhere.

[cowshill]

You have to upload your pics to the image library, not the Gallery. The Gallery is a permanent, moderated resource - your pics won't meet it's criteria and will be discarded. The image library is unmoderated, and you can immediately attach pics you upload there to your posts.

- Jim

[solus]

I take it these are the pictures you mean?






Open them up in the Image Library and copy and paste the info from the Linked Thumbnail: box under the photo details into your post in the forum.

[yanto1410]

Those are they thank you both for your help

[solus]

For what it's worth I'm pretty sure it isn't B. erythropus. Looking at the small dark scales on the uneaten bit if the stipe I'm going to guess at a Leccinum, probably a wet and mature Brown Birch Bolete, Leccinum scabrum. But I may well be wrong, I usually am!

[yanto1410]

Thanks for the quick response. I looked at the Leccinum scabrum, it has a stereotypical mushroom style stork with cap on top. The cap is upside down on the one in my picture, or does the cap turn inside out with this fungus.

[solus]

Some fungi species tend to curl up at the edges like this when they get old - Chris Yeates described it the other day as the "Marilyn Monroe" look, like when she was photographed over the hot air grille trying to hold her skirt down... a description I rather liked, hence my recycling it! It does work better with gilled fungi, of course!

The books (photos or drawings) often only show the fungus at its best whereas in reality you will find them at all stages of life from emergent buttons through to collapsed and soggy mush!

[solus]

By way of illustration for my previous post, this was a Brown Birch Bolete we "watched" for a week on Skye in late August 2007 by the roadside near our accommodation. It was already "elderly" when we first saw it, with the cap upturned, but dry and cracking in the good weather we were enjoying at the time. The insert shows it 3 days on from the main photo, by which time a new, text-book specimen had emerged nearby.

[yanto1410]

Leccinum scabrum it is. I saw some others very like the insert picture close by (covered in little flies).
Thankyou very much all.