Boletus ?grevellei?

Try here Colin...link

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Thank you Steve, for the reference source. I was unaware that there was such a source, I usually struggle through the reference books that I've collected over the years but I could not find this species in that linked source either. I cannot find a labelled example of a Boletus with that distinctive, parted, stipe skin.
Thanks
Colin

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You could also try Mushrooms and other Fungi by Roger Phillips, one of the best reference books on the subject which I have seen. Incidently the image published on 10/11/11 is one of Crassostrea Gigas, not Optiea Leporina. But I'm sure that I'm not the first to notice.

Thank you Bracken, for the additional book recommendation. You were correct in pointing out my calamitous blunder with the image that I posted on 10/11/11. I have since been back to the woods where I had photographed that shell, stupidly thinking it to be some kind of cup fungus or bracket fungus. I was a case of fools rush in where knowledgeable photographers would have feared to photographically blunder! I was looking for fungi so I thought that I had found some! I have since driven back to that woods and walked to the very spot, I poked around in the leaves with a stick till I found what I thought was the shell and inverted it, this time wearing latex gloves so that I could handle it! I photographed the inverted shell with the intention of posting it on the 'Pentax website' to show my stupidity but I now realize that I have compounded my stupidity; it is not the same shell, as it does not have those characteristic wart like protrusions that can be seen in the original photograph! I fail to see how these shells have found their way to fairly high ground in a woods in Berkshire! In explanation of the latex gloves, I am not really a re-incarnation of 'Howard Hughes'; I just want to keep my hands free of all contaminants because whilst in the woods I still need to do my finger prick blood tests, Insulin injections, sandwich eating and often take additional carbohydrate. Some fungi are known to be deadly if ingested, presumably blood contamination would be even more effective. Thanks again, you are the only one to declare my gross stupidity.
Regards Colin

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