Parasitic Bolette

Pseudoboletus parasiticus - Parasitic Bolette

This is an easily identified bolette as it exclusively grows on common earthball - Scleroderma citrinum - fruiting bodies. Its stem erupts from the underside of the earth ball, which often deflates as the bolette mushrooms outwards  and upwards.

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.