PeteS
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Leccinum xxxxx?
Here is a Leccinum (I think), but I am not sure which. As usually the picture hasn't come out quite how it looks and as I hate mushroom pictures for ID without a description here goes...
Growing in a group of about 7-8 in a clearing in the New Forest, with oak on one side and birch on the other. It was a bit closer (just) to oak. This one was about 13cm tall.
Cap: light brown with a hint of orange, matt, smooth, margin overhanging the pores.
Poors: dirty white to pale buff, bruising light brown, small, close and depressed where it meets the stem.
Stem: white to dirty white, covered with fine white scales that rapidly turn dark brown when touched. Fiberous.
Flesh: White and firm rapidly turning pinkish in the cap and stem.
Smell: pleasant.
Taste: pleasant, slightly nutty (well I have eaten some).
My bet at the moment is Leccinum quercinum. The scales on the stem turning from white to brown when touched is something I haven't seen before.
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cab
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Had to look one of these up a couple of years ago, I think its Leccinium scabrum.
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PeteS
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Cab, you could well be correct. I had thought of L. scabrum but the white scales that turned brown after being touched put me off. I did try to get a spore print, but had no luck.
PS - what I thought was L. scabrum looks very different!
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Truffle
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Well it looks a LOT different to the Leccinum scabrum round here. Ours have darker caps, thinner stems and darker scales, could be a lighter colored form though? too hard to tell from the picture. Pore color etc is right.
Incidentally all the Lecciums round here (all species) have dried-up (turned to mush) with the recent cold weather... the plus side is that i found my first field blewitts of the year today.
Pete, were there any other specimens nearby?
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PeteS
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Hello Truffle,
That is what got me - there was Leccinum scabrum nearby and they looked very different. In the mushroom in the picture the caps were lighter (with a hint of orange), the stems fatter (the really young examples were as wide as the cap) and the scales were a drity white and not at all brown, well until the mushroom was touched. One other thing - they had more taste than L. scabrum and were not as watery. They were in a group of 7-8, so it wasn't a one off. However, it could be a lighter form of L. scabrum.
Interesting that you say that you've found Blewits. We have now had a frost down here and conditions are good for Blewits to fruit. I'd say about 7-10 days time.
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bingo
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What frost last night?
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PeteS
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Yes, there was a ground frost when I was out with the dog this morning. In Southampton we had an air temp of 2degC 
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cab
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| Truffle wrote: | Well it looks a LOT different to the Leccinum scabrum round here. Ours have darker caps, thinner stems and darker scales, could be a lighter colored form though? too hard to tell from the picture. Pore color etc is right.
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The scale colour can vary a little over time, but as its changing colour when cut just as it should and all the other details are correct... I dunno, I rekon its most likely that one. But of course with one lonely specimen it can be awfully hard.
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PeteS
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I am coming around to L. scabrum. However, there was NOT just one. There were 7-8 just like it.
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mushroom man
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Nice description. I suggest that it might be Leccinum roseofractum.
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bingo
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bingo
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oxydabile?
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