Mol and Jack ✨

This one ticks all the boxes in the Mushrooms book by Roger Philips, AKA the foragers bible 📚 Look at all those textures 😍 This one's good for drying! 🍄‍🟫 "SUILLUS These are closely related to Boletus (pp.275-87), but distinguished by mostly having distinctly glutinous caps. The stems of many of the species have rings, others have small spots or nets on the surface. They are all terrestrial and grow in association with conifers. (a) Larch Bolete Suillus grevillei (Klotzsch) Singer syn. Boletus elegans Schumach (illustrated 40% life size) Cap 3-10cm across; yellow to chrome, becoming flushed rust; viscid with pale lemon gluten, shiny when dry, Stem 50-70×15-20mm; yellow and punctate or occasionally netted above whitish ring, flushed cinnamon below. Flesh pale yellow in cap, darker lemon-chrome in the stem; taste and smell not distinctive. Tubes pale yellow. Pores small, angular; lemon-yellow, becoming flushed sienna, bruising rust. Spores 8-11×3-4µ, subfusiform-elliptical. Spore print ochre to sienna, Habitat with larch; late summer to autumn. Common. Edible." #mushrooms #fungi #fungus #mushroom #photography #potd #fungiphotography #mushroomphotography #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #funga #bolete #suillus #larchbolete #macro #closeup #forest #woodland #uk #fyp #pilze #grzyby #reels #fyp