Mushrooming

North of Robertsbridge said:

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

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Blue3 said:

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

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