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Spring King


Spring King
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Copyright: Jan Gaisler (honza) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 537 W: 0 N: 716] (4191)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-09-04
Categories: Fungi
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: f/5.0, 30 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-09-06 5:00
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Boletus pinophilus Pilat & Dermak
Cesk. Mycol. 27(1): 7. 1973.

Common Name: Spring King

Synonym: Boletus edulis var. pinicola Vittadini, Boletus pinicola (Vittidini) Venturi

Misapplied name: Boletus edulis

Pileus
Cap 9.0-18.0 cm broad, hemispheric to convex, the disc sometimes depressed in age; margin incurved, then decurved to plane, overlapping the pore layer in youth; surface viscid when moist, glabrous with shallow depressions, wrinkles, or pits; at maturity patchy-tomentose or inconspicuously areolate; unexposed color pallid, then flushed pinkish to vinaceous-brown, at times with a silvery-grey bloom, becoming dull reddish-brown with ochre-brown tints, finally date-brown to dull olive-brown, pinkish tones occasionally persisting along the margin; cap darkening where handled; context up to 3.0 cm thick, white, unchanging, firm when young, soft at maturity; odor mild; taste pleasant, slightly sweet.

Hymenphore
Pores at first white, stuffed, then cream-yellow, eventually dingy yellowish-olive to yellowish-brown, not discoloring when bruised, 2-3/mm, mostly rounded in outline, not boletinoid; tubes depressed adjacent to stipe, colored like the pores, up to 1.5 cm long.

Stipe
Stipe 5.0-10.0 cm long, 2.0-6.0 cm thick, the base slightly enlarged to clavate; context solid, white, unchanging; surface dry, cream-colored gradually becoming pale vinaceous-brown, the upper half conspicuously reticulate, the ornamentation at first white, then concolorous with the underlying stipe color; darkening slightly where handled; partial veil absent.

Spores
Spores 12.5-18.0 x 4.0-5.0 µm, narrowly elliptical to spindle-shaped in face-view, similar in profile, but slightly inequilateral, smooth, thin-walled, with numerous vacuoles; spores olive-brown in deposit.

Habitat
In small groups or cespitose clusters under montane conifers, especially pines; fruiting in late spring; common in some years.

Edibility
Edible and good; best in the button stage; mature specimens usually dried.

Source: http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Boletus_pinophilus.html

My second B. pinophilus after 30 years, when I found it last time.
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Bonjour,
Il ne reste plus qu'ŕ faire la cuisine.
Bonne journée.
clnaef

Hello my friend,

Nice and very tasty trophy for a mushroom picker. I like the overall luminosity of the photo. Gives me an inside the forest feeling.

Cheers, Petru

Hi Jan,
Well captured. Sharp and great details. Well composed picture. Nice simple frame.

Ben Lakitan

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  • TAZ Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2241 W: 47 N: 3167] (10926)
  • [2006-09-06 6:47]

Miam ! Good appetite Jan ! This Boletus pinophilus seems a bit similar to the Boletus edulis... Your made a wonderful shot. Good composition with nice environment. Sharpness and exposure are great.
Congratulations Jan and TFS.

Hello Jan !
This is a wonderful picture of a boletus ! I love the rich colors very much, as well as the beautiful composition and the low POV. You made great use of DOF, the forest in the BG is yonderful. Very well done !
Valerie.

what a great angle you have managed on this fungus. You must have been laying on the ground or have a view finder extender...

You have made the fungus look huge but the detail in it is excellent.

great shot.

TFS
Emma

30 years is a long time between observations, well done.

Superb shot, Great POV and composition.
Excellent light and exposure, great DOF.

A brilliant shot.

Hello Jan,

What an excllent captured photo, perfect details, Bg, POV DOF, great colors, perfectly composed, wexcllent work, TFS kyle

Hi Jan,
the DOF and the low POV are very good. The environment is well seen. Good details and nice colours.
Well done.

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3808 W: 190 N: 11328] (34927)
  • [2006-09-06 11:39]

Hello Jan,
This is a fine specimen shot showing its habitat in the background. Your sharp picture is nearly mouth-watering!
TFS, regards, Ivan

oh jan
magnifique cepe,etait il bon au moins?
cliché reussi avec une bonne profondeur de champ.
laurent

Hi Jan,
The way you took this photo you made the fungi look huge. So a great POV. The colors and sharpenss are spot on and great to have a BG that still has the structure of the forrest.
TFS,
Niek

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2233 W: 188 N: 1929] (8127)
  • [2006-09-07 7:57]

Hello Jan,
Very nice interesting composition. I like the POV, seeing the whole enviroment. Excellent close up, very detailed and sharp. Its looks almost as if its coming out of the screen. Very well done.
Sky

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  • RAP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373] (7405)
  • [2006-09-07 14:49]

Lo poco que conozco de este fascinante reino de los hongos, lo aprendí aquí fundamentalmente de Extramundi y de otros miembros que como tú, nos permiten apreciarlos de esta manera.
Excelente DOF y POV, con suaves colores que junto a una adecuada iluminación nos brinda una imagen perfecta de esta especie.
Gracias y saludos... Ricardo

The little that I know of this fascinating kingdom of the mushrooms, I learned it here fundamentally of Extramundi and of other members than like you, they allow us appreciating them this way.
Excellent DOF and POV, with soft colors and adequate illumination offers us a perfect image of this species.
Thank you and greetings... Ricardo

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  • mikou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 840 W: 67 N: 1311] (5269)
  • [2006-09-19 8:37]

Ahoj Honzo,
máš tu pěknou "sbírku" hub. Ty obrázky jsou nádherný. Zaostření, detaily(!),kompozice a ty barvy - k tomu není co dodat. Skvělá práce, je vidět že už máš S2 plně pod kontrolou. Tak precisní fotky jsem ještě neviděl.
Hodně dalších takových, Miloš
PS.Omlouvám se že píšu všem třem obrázkům stejnou kritiku, ale mají stejnou tematiku a jsou stejně perfektní,tak to snad pochopíš :-))

Hello Jan,

Your very low POV made the fungi look huge. I lke this way of photography. The colors and sharpenss are spot on and great to have a BG that still has the structure of the forrest.

My compliments.

Thanks for sharing and TFS Bob'

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