Mushrooming

[1066familyman]

One last pic of today's Boletes to show the staining.

A cep will always have the typical "club foot", rather than a straight stem. The example on the left of the pic has the colouring on its stem that I would associate with bay or brown birch boletes. You can easily tell a bay bolete by pressing the underside of the cap. If it bruises blue/purple, that indicates a bay. In general avoid mushrooms with red colouring, although even then there are exceptions like red cracking boletes, which grow in our garden. Those are actually edible (but not particularly exciting).

There are probably 80+ types of bolete in the UK. As a rule, we stick to those we can readily find and identify - ceps, bay and birch, slippery Jacks, Jersey cow boletes

Exactly!

Here's a pic of them to show the staining after a few minutes.

I'm with you on Orange Birch Bolete, but it's likely the very similar, Leccinum quercinum, because they were under an Oak tree

 

[1066familyman]

Sorry, I promise this is the last pic. It's just that I forgot to show the caps

 

[Cotton Socks]

This is I think a fungi called Tubariaceae part of the Taxonomic family of fungi many of which are very poisonous to touch or ingest

So probably best not to eat the tomatoes growing in the same pot then? I had no intention of eating the mushrooms themselves. It's really odd, there are none in the pots next to them, same compost, toms grown from seed in the same place as well.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

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[Papa Lazarou]

I've been working my way through this video over the past couple of days