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Boletus impolitus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Fahler Röhrling, Iodine Bolete
Boletus impolitus Mushroom
Ref No: 7264
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Boletus impolitus2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7265
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Boletus impolitus3 Mushroom
Ref No: 7266
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Boletus impolitus5 Mushroom
Ref No: 7268
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Boletus impolitus6 Mushroom
Ref No: 7269
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: Olivaceous
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Boletus impolitus Fr. syn. Xerocomus impolitus (Fr.) Quél Fahler Röhrling Iodine Bolete Cap 5–15cm, clay coloured, sometimes with tawny or olive tints with a pale grey hoariness at first, dry, slightly velvety, then smooth. Stem 60–100 x 30–50mm, robust, straw-coloured at apex, darker brown towards the base. Flesh pale lemon-yellow with deeper yellow region above the pores, becoming faintly pink or very rarely faintly blue after some time on cutting. Taste mild, smell of iodoform in stem base. Tubes lemon-yellow then lemon-chrome. Pores small, similarly coloured. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 10–14 x 4.5–5.5µ. Habitat on rides in broad-leaved woods, particularly oak and often on clay soils. Season early summer to autumn. Rare. Edible. (Two forms illustrated.) Distribution, America and Europe.


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