Fungus for ID please (1 Viewer)

Rudegar · Oct 17, 2019

Found growing on mossy soil underneath Corsican Pine. Thought it was a tiny bolete with naked eye but now looks like a polypore - which I thought grew on wood. Any ideas??
Thanks.

Trichia · Oct 18, 2019

Your gut feeling was right, it's Suillus bovinus. The spores look a bit weird though, what did you mount them in?

Cheers,
Nick

Rudegar · Oct 18, 2019

Thanks Nick.

There are plenty of S. Bovinus in the woods, but these were so small that I thought they were something different altogether.

I mounted them in "Plaq Search" which I saw recommended for white and very light coloured spores - seems to pick them out well but not sure about the colour!

Trichia · Oct 18, 2019

Aah OK, the internal guttules have disappeared and the spores seem to have lost their 'boletoid' shape - I wonder whether the Plaqsearch is to blame for this or whether they're just abnormal spores (or maybe I've got the determination wrong ?!)

It would be interesting to see the same spores mounted in water.....

Cheers,
Nick

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