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Zarza

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 91
Location: Either in the kitchen or in the woods, or in between

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 1:35 pm Post subject: What are these?
Hi I took this pictures today. Any idea what they are? 1. 2. 3.This boletus change very quickly to blue when bruised. The smell is not very "mushroomy", a bit bitter. Cap size is about 20 cmts. Spore prints are on their way. I will update.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 2:00 pm Post subject:

Red berries are either a rowan variant or one of the other Sorbus species I think. Makes a superb jelly and a good wine.

Middle pic is a currant, probably a flowering currant (you know the pink flowered one?). No cullinary interest.

Don't immediately know the boletus, spore prints are less useful for boletus than knowing the habitat. I immediately thought Tylopilus when I saw it, but I can't think of one that stains blue. I'll ponder that one.

skedone

Joined: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 351
Location: essex inbetween a blue bit and a green bit

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 3:08 pm Post subject:
mushroom is red cracking by the look of it just a bit heat destorted i find a few like that if its sudenly dry

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 5:03 pm Post subject:

skedone wrote:

mushroom is red cracking by the look of it just a bit heat destorted i find a few like that if its sudenly dry

You're not put off from it being that by the stem?

skedone

Joined: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 351
Location: essex inbetween a blue bit and a green bit

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 5:10 pm Post subject:
not really mate as i have seen that distorsion from heat on them i will take a pic tomorrow know were some are

Zarza

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 91
Location: Either in the kitchen or in the woods, or in between

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 8:31 am Post subject:
As weird as it may sound, no spore print was yielded after a day laying. wtf?

PeteS

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 874
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 07 10:37 pm Post subject:
For what I can see and you have said (your mention of 'bitter' is interesting) my money is on Boletus calopus.

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