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Unknown bolete

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  • May 29, 2015 at 11:13 am #29418
    eltio
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      Any suggestions about this? I can’t do conifers, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a larch. You can just see the two fruit bodies at the base. They were very dry, but I think the cap had been viscid. There is what looks like a dried leaf wrapped tightly around each stipe, but I think it is a membranous ring, peeling downward. At the top of the stipe there are red stipules. Colour unchanging when bruised or cut, although possibly a slight pinkening toward the base of the stipe. No spores yet. Haven’t managed to get it under a microscope. I was thinking Suillus, but it doesn’t look right to me for S. luteus.

      Thanks

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      May 29, 2015 at 4:51 pm #34665
      Lancashire Lad
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        I think you’re correct with Suillus – but which?

        Is the site located somewhere where you can easily make a return visit?

        I’d initially thought that the tree did look like Larix – but I’m not sure.

        If you can get back to the site and have a look for cones etc. under the tree (plus a close shot of the needles) that might help.

        Four likely suspects would be S. luteus, S. collinitus, S. cavipes, and S. grevillei. – but the macro characteristics in your shots don’t seem to be an ideal fit for any one of them.

        Regards,

        Mike.

        May 29, 2015 at 9:43 pm #34666
        roy betts

          Surely S. luteus. It has the typical sepia-brown ring and lower stipe (although the images don’t show the whole length of the stipe).

          May 30, 2015 at 8:54 am #34667
          eltio
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            Thanks both. I’m happy with S. luteus. I have only seen it once or twice before, and always with a deep chestnut brown cap, so the dirty streaky yellow fooled me. I’ll know better in future.

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