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Here's another ID - thanks for all the help so far - I've got this one as a Brown Birch Bolete - any thoughts? PS first photo is of tree they were sat under.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45306032@N ... 126726746/











## Habitat ##
Time picked: mid Oct
Location: grass under birch tree canopy
Habit: many fungi widely spread from near trunk to limit of tree canopy

Smell: pleasant, earthy

## Cap ##
Dia: 6cm (young), 12cm (mature)
Shape: Convex
Margin: Flat
Veil: none present
Texture: Dry, firm, breaks cleanly (young), wet, spongy (mature)
Skin: smooth, dry (young), wet, sticky (mature)
Colour: light brown (young), dark brown (mature)
Pores: cream (young) bruise brown, dark (mature)
Spore print: brown

## Stem ##
Length (mature): 10cm
Colour: off-white with dark brown stippling
Ring: None
Shape: Tapering from a broad base
Texture: TBC
Attachment to cap: At centre

Hi again Gaz, you have been busy this weekend!

The dark capped mushroom looks like Boletus badius. The two lighter specimens look more like Leccinum scabrum. The former should bruise brownish/green when the surface of the tubes is damaged. The latter should not change colour when bruised. Both are, in principle, edible and good, although Leccinums do turn black when cooked.