6 boletes, a blue and a cluster for id please

[Lemars]

Morning all

Yesterday, a short walk through mixed (but many oaks) woodland produced quite an array of mushrooms.

I have attempted to identify them, but some are poor specimens. No spore prints taken, as yet, but I wondered if anyone could assist with the identification of any (or all ?) of them, please?
I've added more of the larger of the first three, but could take other photos of the smaller two if it would help


Then there are 3 more - but with more similarities. Again, I could take further photos:




There were two little groups like this:

And only one little blue one - which my dog kicked over:

Oops - haven't unloaded the underside of the blue one. I'll do that and add it to the thread afterwards.

All help gratefully received.

C

[Lemars]

............to continue...............

here is the underside of the little blue mushroom



and I thought I'd add these which are more identifiable, but all the above mushrooms (and many others) were found in a very small woodland area.

A Death Cap



and a Panther Cap

...............over to you clever people

C

[mollisia]

Hello,

you must have a wonderful area there for fungi and it will be surely worth monitoring this!!

Some of your bolets are rare and endagered fungi!

On the first fotos with the three different bolets, the big one is Boletus aereus. Something quite rare, I suppose. The orange capped species is Leccinum leucopodium (= L. aurantiacum s.auct.; = L. albostipitatum). The small one I can not identify, but might well be B. edulis as you named it. Could also be B. reticulatus of course.

On the next fotos with three similar bolets, two of them are Boletus reticulatus, but the one you named Boletus calopus is in my opinion Boletus fuscoroseus (= B. pseudoregius). It might be only B. appendiculatus, as colours on the monitor may get strange, but from what I see I have little doubts about it being B. fuscoroseus. I think this one is quite rare in Britain too.

The cluster is Armillaria mellea, at least s.l., but I think also s.str.

The little blue one should have had a strong smell like aniseed: Clitocybe odora.

It would be great if the data of the bolets could find its way into a national inventory, as you have some rare findings there!

best regards,
Andreas

[Lemars]

Thank you for your quick reply, Andreas.

And I'm SO glad I posted those now. It's not unusual to find all sorts of things here. You mentioned the incidence in Britain, but I'm actually in France - so maybe the variety is less surprising.

I'm going to sort out what you've just told me now - but I can confirm the aniseed smell of the little blue one, straight away. Annoyingly, I must have smelled about 20 mushrooms yesterday, but failed to smell the distinctly-smelly one !!

Thank you for being so encouraging - it was a great reply to receive !!

C

[mollisia]

Hello,

o.k., for France it is not that surprising to find Boletus aereus in November .... I didn't look were you come from.

But nevertheless, even for France Boletus fuscoroseus (pseudoregius) is not a common species. The French National Inventory is leaded by Régis Courtecuisse from Lille. He may be glad to recieve data from you.

best regards,
Andreas