I dont think its the Kluzakii as there is no pink or red colouration apart from the red dots, the caps dont crack as far as i can tell (none of the ones that I have growing here have cracking of that type). The tubes are more yellow than cream but they bruise blue very quickly and stay bruised. the flesh varies from mushroom to mushroom, some bluing very deeply and quickly, others bluing very little. But all have the red blood spots.
Im doing a spore print today and will let you know colour. When it stops raining Ill get a clearer stipe photo too.
I will also freeze a portion. Is there anyone that I could send a sample to for analysis?
Leccinum cyaneobasileucum has the same stipe pattern as the brown birch bolete which is very very common here and I can identify this and its cousins the orange birch and oak boletes fairly confidently, this fungi doesnt have the ‘speckled’ stipe and is not at all similar in mho.
I have never seen the red spots in the flesh on any other bolete (I use the term loosely as a layman). I cant find any reference to the red spots in the flesh on either of the ones you said to compare to.
How much variance is there between mushrooms of the same type? Could these just randomly have red dots when others of their type dont?
