OT: Unknown fungus?

[The Natural Philosopher]

dunno where else to ask..I reckon to know, or have a book to describe MOST common fungi, but this one has me beat.

Type: Some sort of boletus.Its in company with other boletes, and its definitely a tube rather than gill fungus.

Size: Cap 5-15cm. Stipe similar and slender.

Color: a dead livid white. As white as any Amanita Virosa. Which it ain't!

Other distinguishing features: some slight veil..tubes are a little greyer and darker than the cam or stem. Cap ages towards the tube color.

Location: deciduous woods on dampish clay over chalk type soil.

I'll take my camera next time.

I know of no dead white boletes at all...anyone know better?

[Mickey Mouse]

Does it alter your perception of reality after you consume it?

[Rod]

The xerocomus are, casually, indistinguishable from boletus. However, to save the bother of looking, there is no white one!

You might wish to try here:

Does it discolour on being cut?

Smell?

What? You can walk in woodland *without* a camera? :-)

[Mary Fisher]

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Everyone needs a hobby ... walking anywhere is a new one on me though.

Mary

[Owain]

It hasn't had much effect on his typing...

Owain

[Rod]

Nah - walking isn't a hobby - finding mushrooms is.

Anyway, one whitish bolete - sorry, Italian Wiki:

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

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I'm kind of surprised. One of my favorite things to do is walk places with people. In Cambridge we could do long loops out into the countryside and back into the city again. I even look for excuses to do small errands so I can walk to the shops and whatnot - realizing I need to get another few screws to match one that I'm running out of, or whatever. Is casual walking really that rare a pastime? (I'm not talking about especially-organized things with Serious Walkers; I give those a wide berth, though I wonder if the March March March still happens.)

Mark

[Mary Fisher]

I don't suppose it is but when you're old, with a gammy knee and your back is shot walking is not as easy as it used to be :-(

The bike is easier but you don't see the fungi as easily :-)

And anyway, Cambridge is flat, Leeds isn't ...

Mary.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I thought since i didn't know what it was, it might permanently delete my pereception..

Never heard of a psychoactive bolete mind you. Most are either edible or taste too horrible to mean anyone would.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No bolete there matches it.

Not a lot, no.

Haven't tried that.

Sure: I have to dork the wogs every day and throw stix..camera gets in the way.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nah. Stipe far too fat!

[Rod]

My reply was flippant and meant to be slightly jocular. I do like going for a walk - but quite often, if in the woods, the underlying reason is to look for fungi.

[The Medway Handyman]

Qute right Mary, walking is agin nature. If God meant us to walk he wouldn't have invented the car.

[Rod]

Hmmm - incorporate a ruggedised camera into a reusable stick?

Actually, I take camera and partner uses the one in her mobile. Very convenient.

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 20:16:22 on Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Rod remarked:

You sound like a fun guy.

[Rod]

How about a Leccinum - used to be part of Boletus.

A key to identification can be found here:

Not the easiest to follow.

[Rod]

Leccinum holopus?

Or albinisitc form of Leccinum cyaneobasileucum?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah.I may have it.

The ONLY tube fungus anywhere near it is this one

Holopus or 'ghost bolete'.

However the habitat is just wrong. No birch/bog in sight..

Leccinum Albellum is the other possibility.

that's reckoned to be N America only.

It suits the habitat though.

Time to get the camera out methinks.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Both associated with birch, on sandy or peaty soils: although the damned thing looks right, I can't recall there being any birch there.

And its smack in the woods, under maple and oak..on clay soil.

Curiouser and curiouser.

[Paul Treadaway]

"Mark T.B. Carroll" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Apparently so: