Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[David Goss]

David,

It's always nice to enjoy good food (and drinks) with locals . But to give you an idea of numbers, we're talking about 600 metric tons of "porcini" coming from Scandinavia every year, picked by Polish and Lituanian season workers camping in their VW-vans and making coffee fires in the woods everywhere, because of the Swedish "almansrecht".

 

I can imagine the Italians would need to import them as well for sure because they are a very sought after and eaten a LOT! almost everywhere you go you can find something with porcini. Francesca (my other half) just said you were to stop talking about them and just bring them here so she can do a lovely risotto:lol: if i was you i would cos that girl can cook:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Matt,

Boletus erythropus.

 

Gerrit i struggle with the Boletes, what clues did make certain your identification?

[Fungus]

the Boletes, what clues did make certain your identification?

 

Tony,

The brownish to olivaceous colour and the velvety matt texture of the cap, the orange red colour of the pores turning dark blue when bruised, the yellowish colour of the stipe with reddish dots and a reddish apex and the association with oak.

[Fungus]

Only 5 metres for a tree species, which can send out its water searching roots more then 25 metres away from the base of the trunk ?

 

An example of how far away FB's of Amanita rubescens can be from the beeches the mycelium associates with. In this case, the superficial beech roots outreach the crown projection of the trees by several metres and even underpass a compressed gravel path reaching to the point where the Amanita mycelium fruits.

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[David Humphries]

What I believe to be Suillus granulatus - the Weeping Bolete

From Thetford in Suffolk, amongst a pine & larch woodland.

 

Note the sweating on the last shot of the pores.

 

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[Fungus]

What I believe to be Suillus granulatus - the Weeping Bolete From Thetford in Suffolk, amongst a pine & larch woodland. Note the sweating on the last shot of the pores.

 

David,

, so you have moved on to ectomycorrhizal pine (and larch) species now .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

David,

, so you have moved on to ectomycorrhizal pine (and larch) species now .

 

he has got the perfect place close by now!

[David Humphries]

David,

, so you have moved on to ectomycorrhizal pine (and larch) species now .

 

he has got the perfect place close by now!

 

 

 

Variety is the spice of life

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Variety is the spice of life

 

 

 

 

 

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best not tell the wife you said that! while your away from home 4 days a week!

[David Humphries]

best not tell the wife you said that! while your away from home 4 days a week!

 

 

Will be far to busy with me head in books to even notice the fairer sex.

I think the good wife will have little to worry about.

 

 

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