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slippery Jack

Joined: 23 Oct 2006
Posts: 34
Location: South Wales

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 10 5:26 pm Post subject: Best day ever ( I think?)

Had what I think was a bonanza today.
Mainly ceps (I'm pretty certain) but also some large boletes like Ceps but with yellow rather than white pores growing with what look like definite Ceps (last picture)
Also some Brown Birch Boletes ( Leccinum Scabrum I think), and a very few chanterelles.
Pictures attached.
Any comments as to identification appreciated (Orange, Apple and banana are for scale purposes !)

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Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 10 7:33 pm Post subject:
Pretty impressive specimens

Stewy

Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 10 8:19 pm Post subject:
The ones with yellow pores are Ceps too, just older as the pores go from white to yellow as they age. And yeah, a few brown birch boletes by the looks of it too. Good stuff.........

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 10 8:51 pm Post subject:
make sure they are brown birch boletes and not tylopilus felleus [the bitter bolete]

slippery Jack

Joined: 23 Oct 2006
Posts: 34
Location: South Wales

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 10 9:28 am Post subject:
Thanks for replies: After 3 years looking I was beginning to think proper Ceps did not grow in South Wales ! Have previously only found Birch boletes, chrysenteron, and what look to me like luridus, and several types of Suillus

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 10 9:53 am Post subject:
optimism and patience for a mushroom hunter are invalueable and they do pay off in the end ,took me 4 years to learn how to seek and find ceps,then chanterelles etc .Good luck

jp

Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 302
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 10 7:23 pm Post subject:
Nice haul! Bubble is right about checking for bitter boletes masquerading as Ceps or similar - they will ruin a meal if they get into your collection undiscovered. Young bitter boletes can look spookily like young Ceps. I usually taste a bit of any Bolete which I think is a Cep but not 100% sure of - the bitter bolete is extremely bitter (!)

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