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Leccinum Gray, 1821 (a genus of boletes)

Date: 12 October 2001
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 12/10/2001[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: At foot of Grey Sallow in small copse of Aspen; Birch also nearby.
Identification Notes: Cap: hard, finely tomentose.
Stipe: scabrae only rusty.
Flesh: vinaceous tinged after 5 minutes, becoming slate after 15 minutes.
Caulocystidia: clavate to fusiform or even lageniform with brown contents, occasional spheropedunculate cells up to 35µm diam; generally broader in mid-stipe than at apex.
Kibby: BIKP

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap surface - enlarged 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - LS - 0 minutes after cutting 500 by 479 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - LS - 05 minutes after cutting 408 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - LS - 05 minutes after cutting 236 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - LS - 15 minutes after cutting 373 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - side view 269 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ - side view 309 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Stipe - apex - close-up 500 by 334 pixels
naked eye photograph Stipe - close-up 317 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - from mid stipe 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - from mid stipe 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - from mid stipe 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - from upper stipe 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - from upper stipe 500 by 363 pixels
microscope photograph Caulocystidia - from upper stipe 500 by 400 pixels

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