Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less)

The fungi in this sub-group produce fruitbodies that, until you look below the cap could be mistaken for mushrooms. However, instead of gills below the cap there are pores. In fungal field guides you will find these fungi referred to collectively as boletes. In boletes the cap is quite thick in relation to its diameter. In some boletes the flesh or pores may turn blue when damaged, in others there is no colour change and bolete identification keys ask about this.

In the following hints you see examples of useful identification features and a few of the more commonly seen genera in which at least some species (not necessarily all) show those features.

Hints

Cap over 30 cm in diameter: Phlebopus.

Very soft texture, like marshmallow: Fistulinella.

Red cap, yellow pores: Boletellus.

Growing near pine trees: Suillus.

Growing near birch trees: Leccinum.

Stem deeply pitted, somewhat honeycomb-like: Austroboletus.

Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less)

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KylieWaldon wrote:

28 May 2022

after surfing the internet - maybe its granulatus - i don't think there was that ring on the stem. they were quite big - at least 10cm across and a bit rough looking (not uniform).

Suillus luteus

KylieWaldon wrote:

28 May 2022

Sorry Michael! :(

Suillus luteus

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

28 May 2022

Thanks that makes me less confident about my suggested ID - will have to leave it to some-one else

Suillus luteus

KylieWaldon wrote:

28 May 2022

Hi Michael. These came up in a low patch which was underwater between feb and mar after lots of rain creating a shallow lake of about 3m x 7m. A wattle fell into it and there is already a fallen dead gum tree in that patch. It is dry now. Run off from all over the place probably fed into it, but there is no sign of pine trees that I have seen in the reserve. There some prunus and other foreign trees in the high ground about 10m away and the army fenceline which has a number of foreign and native tree forest over the fence.

Suillus luteus

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

25 May 2022

Were there pine trees around?

Suillus luteus

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