Want your Mushroom ID? Ask here and also look at some of the old posts here to see what you might have. Make sure you use a field guide and triple check using google images.
I'm not normally in the habit of taking mushrooms that i don't even know are edible or not in the slight chance that they are, but this was a particularly attractive specimen so did it anyway on this occasion:
This looks like a type of boletus, maybe a bay or a brown birch one. Based on the colour, I would eat it, but there my be some discoloration when you touch it that would give more info. Anyway, the most dangerous boletus have got red or pinkish tubes, so they are easy enough to spot I think. I did try some more creamy cap boletus last year just to be sure they were what it said in my book and yep, they were, just not nice to eat, very bitter, but still no killers, you simply could not eat them....
It is important to see what trees grow next to the boletus as well, as this can tell you what they cannot be if it cannot always tell you what they can be and there are lots of different ones...
This is a leccium of some kind, brown birch bolete or similar. The Lecciums can be difficult to ID exactly without further information (habitat, colour/bruising when cut etc). There are no poisonous lecciums. They are variable in taste, I tend to eat only the young firm brown birch boletes (and lookalikes). Some of them are Cep=like and very tasty.
Upon researching the ones you mentioned, it seems to look exactly like the Birch Bolete, in every way. Also as far as i recall it was ground under birch trees but i can't be 100% sure about that as i didn't take too much notice at the time, but the trees were mostly birch everywhere else. Upon splitting the cap in half the flesh is exactly like you would get in a typical shop bought white mushroom, and smells like it too. Didn't stain at all either on the inside flesh. I made a spore print, which is similar to the colour of the cap (browny red).
