Fungi Friday 🍄

East Court, East Grinstead (near Ashplatts Wood), July 2025

The summer bolete season is in full swing in West Sussex. Last week I found these large boletes in a little bit of woodland next to a lane. They were under oak.

I turned one of the mushrooms over to check the underside. I found these wonderful tangerine pores with blue bruising. Classic summer boletes.

Here’s my hand for scale, they’re not huge.

Here’s a close up of the bruising which has probably been caused by a slug nibbling on it. Not all boletes bruise so heavily.

This is one for the serious fungi people out there, as it may be a species of mould specific to boletes. Dunno!

My guess would be that these are inkstain boletes.

Thanks for reading.

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