Last one for ID !

lynnek · #1 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 04:20 PM

I feel totally deflated today as I'm not doing well identifying fungi!
Underside view to follow.

lynnek · #2 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 04:22 PM

NickCantle · #3 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 04:45 PM

Hi!

Don't fret, it's a Lactarius, check the milk in the broken stipe in the second shot

looking at the habitat, could be L. Rufous. I'm on my phone though so pictures are tough to look at! That's my disclaimer

lynnek · #4 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 04:51 PM

I did look at that one. I didn't realise it actually had "milk". That's something else for me to focus on.

Chris Yeates · #5 (**permalink**) 09-10-2010, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lynnek

I did look at that one. I didn't realise it actually had "milk". That's something else for me to focus on.

if you had a little lick of the milk (perfectly safe!) and it was Lactarius rufus you would know about it

this was the latest I've looked at so I take back comments about shots of undersides . . . . now that has the decurrent gill attachment one might expect with Lactarius aurantiacus in a broad sense

was it a wet day? I wouldn't expect L. rufus to look as shiny as this, but as Nick has indicated the habitat is right for it

cheers

Chris

lynnek · #6 (**permalink**) 10-10-2010, 06:57 AM

It was a lovely dry day this week.

NickCantle · #7 (**permalink**) 10-10-2010, 07:33 PM

I'm not being rude or anything, but are you sure you've not mixed up 2 pictures here? The slippery, slimy looking specimen looks larger and has yellow dots (presumably the flesh showing through the caps) which would indicate this the cap of a Suillus.

The second is definitely Lactarius.

Honestly can't see how these are the same specimen! Especially if you state it's dry. The only genus I know that stay that viscid, even when dry, is Suillus. The habitat looks different in the 2 images too, though not totally different.

What do you make of that?

lynnek · #8 (**permalink**) 11-10-2010, 08:00 AM

This is of course possible. The photos were only taken a minute apart but weren't the same sample. My husband was being "helpful" in bringing me a fungus to photograph the underside and maybe it was different!!. So maybe I'll put this one (these two) down to Unknown.