Boletus for thought ....

[PMG]

No - but I could cut the one here tomorrow and photograph it - in fact I will do it now before it dries out and any changes are lost ............ the one I cut (well it wasn't a clean cut cos I still cant find my knife so I butchered it with the little blade on my tiny pair of scissors) it was a rough cut but it remained unchanged - no bluing in the stipe?



These are cut properly just now with a sharp knife in the kitchen ..... I'm aware as welll as the cracking on the cap I could kind of see an overlap in the cap cuticle ....

[PMG]

As much of a coincidence as I think it might be with last weeks fetchneri I've come to the conclusion that everything with yesterdays spec fits appendiculatus and after looking in B&K and them stating it can be found under Beech or Oak I'm more or less sold:
the cap does project ever so slightly,
the tubes blue immediately,
the flesh in the cap slightly and slowly,
the stipe has the yellow net, browning to the base,
and there was a sharp truncation into a rooting base,
the cap is wrinkled ..........
thats too many matches to think anything other than appendiculatus .........

Pauline

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by PMG

No - but I could cut the one here tomorrow and photograph it - in fact I will do it now before it dries out and any changes are lost ............ the one I cut (well it wasn't a clean cut cos I still cant find my knife so I butchered it with the little blade on my tiny pair of scissors) it was a rough cut but it remained unchanged - no bluing in the stipe?



These are cut properly just now with a sharp knife in the kitchen ..... I'm aware as welll as the cracking on the cap I could kind of see an overlap in the cap cuticle ....

These do look like B. appendiculatus to me. It is a species that blues to varying degrees and the rooting/tapered stipe base is charateristic.

How odd that they should be in exactly in the same spot as B. fetchneri? Competing species.

Andy

[flaxton]

This gives more credence to those mycologists who think B appendiculatus and B fechtneri are not only closely related but actually just forms of the same species

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by flaxton

This gives more credence to those mycologists who think B appendiculatus and B fechtneri are not only closely related but actually just forms of the same species

Indeed it does! And there are many more of these out there, believe me! I am not at all familiar with the supposed B. fechtneri but I am with B. appendiculatus so I can't really comment on 'any major differences' between the two.

Andy

[PMG]

Thanks for thinking guys: yet again the 'Trough' throws up food for thought!!!!

Pauline

[PMG]

The cross cuts I put into the stipe flesh did actually blue overnight - the crosses were grey in the morning indicating it had changed colour over a few hours.

I've arrived back at my usual stumbling block of thinking around why fungi look different at different times and what causes this? Cos that B.fetchneri had a stipe like no other I have ever seen - the probable appendiculatus found in the same area by ten to 15 yards had a very different stipe .......... all very puzzling and as usual there are more questions than answers!!!!

Pauline