Also got a neat photo of Chroogomphus and Suillus mushrooms growing together, I guess pine spikes are supposed to parasitize members of the Suillus genus.
Cool! That is quite pointy.
Is the spotty pattern on the Suillus normal? Or is it showing signs of being parasitized?
I think it is just the texture of the cap, I’m not sure but I think the symbiosis is at the mycelium level.
Nice find, the host/parasite pairings for boletes are usually species-specific so if you can ID either mushroom to species, you’ll know what the other one is as well.
Thanks, I did take a have a look under the scope so will take another look at the photos. I was thinking something like C. ochraceus.
I think you’re right, that Suillus looks like S. tomentosus which grows with two-needle pine and I see a bunch of two-needle bundles in your photo. C. ochraceus is a complex but one of them is supposed to parasitize S. tomentosus so you’ve probably got whichever that one is.
