Orange Birch Bolette

Monday Mushroom #28

This mushroom only grows next to birch trees. Quite a few mushrooms are very specific about which trees they associate with.

Leccinum versipelle - Orange Birch Bolette

  Many of these specialists form close symbiotic relationships with the tree in question - there is a mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients going on between the mycelium of the fungus and the roots of the tree.

Leccinum versipelle - Orange Birch Bolette

This one seems to have had some difficulty pushing through the surface. I came back a few days later to see if it would straighten out, but something had eaten it.