Looking for ID on a huge fungus

[Mang]

I've put the chewing gum packet in for scale. It seemed like it was made of foam, there wasn't any skirt, white spores or even gills (foamy underneath too). I was going to snap the underside but the camera battery died. Where the stalk joined, the 'umbrella' curved in slighly. Very impressive...any ideas?

 

[mountainm]

Could be a penny bun, but don't quote me on that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_edulis

 

[mrcairney]

Consulting the tome, I thought it could be a:
Boletus Impolitus
(http://www.aranzadi-zientziak.org/f...k/09_digital/boletus_impolitus_jmm_091017.jpg) but they're really quite rare and the stem isn't thicker at the base.

If the stem was hollow it could be a Boletinus cavipes.

Here's the tome, pick it up, it's worth it http://www.amazon.co.uk/Field-Guide-Mushrooms-Britain-Europe/dp/1852235926

 

[jonnie drake]

surely that is a cep; the penny bun.

 

[mrcairney]

Apparently Cep stems are always darker towards the cap and lighter at the ground and this one doesn't seem to be like that.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Consulting the tome, I thought it could be a:
Boletus Impolitus

Looks like an odd-shaped Penny Bun to me. Definately not Boletus impolitus.

 

[Mafro]

Again, noting environmental information makes an ID so much easier. We can see that its growing out of grass, but was it under any trees at all? if so, do you know what trees they were?

Its not screaming b.edulis to me, just doesn't seem quite right but pictures can be very deceiving.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Again, noting environmental information makes an ID so much easier. We can see that its growing out of grass, but was it under any trees at all? if so, do you know what trees they were?

Its not screaming b.edulis to me, just doesn't seem quite right but pictures can be very deceiving.

It's not screaming anything else though, is it? What else could it be? An odd-shaped leccinum, perhaps? I guess it could also just be something rare enough to not to be in any of the common guides. There are quite a few large boletes that come into that category.

 

[mrcairney]

I agree that it's very Cep-like, but with mushrooms you've got to dead sure and now it's going to bug me! It's awesome, no matter what it is!

 

[Mafro]

It's not screaming anything else though, is it? What else could it be? An odd-shaped leccinum, perhaps? I guess it could also just be something rare enough to not to be in any of the common guides. There are quite a few large boletes that come into that category.

I does look like a cep, but at the same time something is telling me that its not one. As I said, it could just be the photo

 

[yomperalex]

Foamy underneath would indicate a boletus. Doesn't strike me as cepe though.

Alex

 

[Geoff Dann]

Foamy underneath would indicate a boletus. Doesn't strike me as cepe though.

Alex

It is definately a bolete, and not a Suillus. It's either a penny bun, a close relative of a penny bun or a Leccinum. It is also definately not poisonous, but should be left where it is because there's only one of them and we aren't certain what it is.

 

[Paulm]

Brown birch bolete maybe, though often the stems are taller and thinner so not sure ?

Cheers, Paul

 

[Mang]

I'm no expert but I thought it looked similar to the Penny Bun that Uncle Ray featured once. I'm back up to the site on Friday so as long as it's still standing I'll take a pic of the underside. It's standing in a grassy field margin about 6 foot away from trees and 20 feet away from water.

 

[Geoff Dann]

I'm no expert but I thought it looked similar to the Penny Bun that Uncle Ray featured once. I'm back up to the site on Friday so as long as it's still standing I'll take a pic of the underside. It's standing in a grassy field margin about 6 foot away from trees and 20 feet away from water.

What sort of tree?