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Tube trama hyaline in KOH, obscurely divergent to subparallel, hyphae 4-7 ?m wide. Pileus trama homogeneous, loosely interwoven, hyaline, hyphae 5-7 ?m wide. Pileus cuticle differentiated as a tangled trichodermium, which collapses with age, occasional free hyphal tips; hyphae 5-7 ?m wide. Stipe cuticle differentiated as a layer of fertile basidia with scattered-to-numerous fusoid-ventricose caulocystidia. Clamp connections absent.

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Pictures of spruce seedlings. The ones in the larger pots have been transplanted to the first bolete I cultured, I don't know what it is.

The ones in the small pots I was going to put into potting soil with B. edulis culture. I didn't get it done this summer. I will put these soon in a sheltered place for the winter.

Hopefully I can keep the B. edulis culture alive until the spring. I plan to buy some two or three year old trees and plant them with colonized soil or grain added to the hole. I've been told that with each successive transfer B edulis loses vitality and finally dies

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I bought 50 Black Spruce and planted about 45 of them with B. edulis spawn.
The spawn was grown on fine Red Oak sawdust mixed with used tea leaves.
B. edulis grows well on this medium. It also really likes used coffee grounds.
I put about an ounce of sawdust in each hole.

I planted most of them in the ground in fairly wet places. I put a few in
pots.





The trees I grew and found the mushroom under are problably not Black Spruce.
This is the trees at the top of the page.
The Black Spruce I purchased have much lighter colored needles.

I also planted some Blue Oak acorns and added some chantelle spawn to the pots.

Edit: March 26th 2007, the tree I found the Boletus subcearulescens under was some sort of Hemlock I'm not sure which one. I planted 50 Black Spruce trees with Boletus subcearulescens I think about 12 survived, I have two in pots, five in a close ring and 4 or 5 here and there. Two of the trees that were planted were planted without sawdust spawn. Most of the trees that died were planted in too wet soil or in too much shade.