Bolete (Which one)
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affinis outside chance felleus! Just guesses don't really know! But if it's wandering about with a mobile phone just ask it! 
Not sure about affinis,
It lacks the dark raised net on the stem and does not have the pink pores of the felleus
The phone was mine but the damn shroom pinched it
It lacks the dark raised net on the stem and does not have the pink pores of the felleus
The phone was mine but the damn shroom pinched it
Ptrobably just Boletus edulis. It is so locally variable that it is often difficult to decide. The fact it does not bruise (much) when cut also points in that direction.
Montivagus said:affinis outside chance felleus! Just guesses don't really know! But if it's wandering about with a mobile phone just ask it!
From the photo I would also say Boletus edulis. What kind of location was it in ( I see woodland but is it acidic soil, oak, conifer etc?)
It is an amazingly well preserved specimen to be fully open. Usually by then they are soggy and rat-eared but then this year is exceptional for fungi and the conditions are perfect.
Nice photo, shame about the phone but I see why you put it in for scale
It is an amazingly well preserved specimen to be fully open. Usually by then they are soggy and rat-eared but then this year is exceptional for fungi and the conditions are perfect.
Nice photo, shame about the phone but I see why you put it in for scale
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Considering its size, the white pores, and the cap colour slightly bleeding into the white flesh I would diffinatly put in the same sect as the Boletus Edulis. I would taste it to tell which one of the sect it was. The pore colour is completly wrong for it to be in with the Satanas so I wouldn't have worries, but taste testing as means of identifing a fungus is the preserve of the very knowledgible or the completly thick. It could be a Boletus separans as it 's quite red but as a previous posting said the edulis is very varible.
Moonraker said:From the photo I would also say Boletus edulis. What kind of location was it in ( I see woodland but is it acidic soil, oak, conifer etc?)
It is an amazingly well preserved specimen to be fully open. Usually by then they are soggy and rat-eared but then this year is exceptional for fungi and the conditions are perfect.
Nice photo, shame about the phone but I see why you put it in for scale
It is growing in sandy soil which has a mixture of oak, beech, pine.
I do have the same photo without the phone
Also no i did not eat it (Bottled out!)
