red bolete for ID please

iainbean · #1 (**permalink**) 27-10-2010, 09:11 PM

Evening all!

I came across these veeery well hidden specimens today amongst ceps. I've found a much bigger one which I identified some months back so I'm fairy sure I know what I'm dealing with but wanted to confirm.

They were growing in a wood of mostly beech trees. Spotty speckled red stems (no reticulation), very dense. Stems fading to yellow with light patches. Bright yellow (then blue) when cut but has dark oxidised coating with leaves stuck to it. Smell is similiar to boletus edulis but not so strong. Cap is dark olive brown and red underneath with spores so tight I can't see any holes.

Cheers

richickle · #2 (**permalink**) 27-10-2010, 09:30 PM

poss b.badius? - but then it's not often i'm right !!! mal (flaxton) is the bolete man so hopefully he'll be along soon

Ken Burgess · #3 (**permalink**) 27-10-2010, 09:43 PM

Boletus luridiformis.

ken

flaxton · #4 (**permalink**) 27-10-2010, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by richickle

poss b.badius? - but then it's not often i'm right !!! mal (flaxton) is the bolete man so hopefully he'll be along soon

and Ken is just good at everything

There's never a green with envy smilie when you need one.
Mal

FungiJohn · #5 (**permalink**) 27-10-2010, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by flaxton

and Ken is just good at everything

There's never a green with envy smilie when you need one.
Mal

I'm working on that icon right now mal

John

iainbean · #6 (**permalink**) 27-10-2010, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Ken Burgess

Boletus luridiformis.

ken

Great, that's what I was thinking. It's a bit confusing as Rogers Mushrooms is still using the old name Boletus erythropus. Beautiful really, they are little multicoloured nuggets. Thanks Ken.

richickle · #7 (**permalink**) 28-10-2010, 03:20 PM

is b.luridoformis a good find then Mal? - there are loads every year pop up on the traffic icland at the end of my in-laws street. it was the 1st one i ever found when i got into looking for fungi as a hobby

flaxton · #8 (**permalink**) 28-10-2010, 05:12 PM

They vary, in some areas they are not common at all but in others it is difficult not to trip over them. Being a distinctive fruit-body once seen it is always easy to identify in future but I am always pleased to find it. They are also one of the early fruiters so the are often the first Bolete to appear in the summer.

Mal

richickle · #9 (**permalink**) 28-10-2010, 09:48 PM

i agree mal - can't believe i got this wrong !!! we always find them at the start of august - all gone by sept. thanks - rich

mollisia · #10 (**permalink**) 29-10-2010, 06:08 AM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by iainbean

It's a bit confusing as Rogers Mushrooms is still using the old name Boletus erythropus.

Hmmm, this depends on the sight of things ... It thinks it's confusing that the british mycologists still use the name luridiformis!
The name erythropus (in the sense of FRIES) has been used for more then one and a half century in an unanimousely sense and therefore could easily been conserved in the sense of FRIES. If the usage of the name luridiformis doesn't stop, someone has to spend a lot of time to write a proposal to conserve the name erythropus in its traditional sense. A proposal which is certainly met with, so all which use the name luridiformis will have to "re-learn" that erythropus is again the name of choice - then confirmed by the botanical congress.

Just my opinion .... - but in continental Europe there is not much other opinion in this matter, except some danish mycologists.

best regards,
Andreas