Alicia, you didn't bring me any mushrooms as you said you would in the previous comment, but you sent me two pictures of mushrooms that you found at the Upper Payette Lake campground. Really interesting pictures.
I looks to me that the white mushroom is a bolete covered with a parasitic fungi. Probably a Boletus edulis covered with Hypomyces chrysospermus. I am guessing that because the other mushroom looks like a Boletus edulis. It appears to me that the parasite fungus is starting to take over the reticulation and the pores of the good mushroom; can you see that too? I will discuss it with some people, and I will keep my eyes open when I collect boletes in the future. Thank you!
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| Early infection |
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| Hypomyces chrysospermus |
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