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

synonyms: Bolet blafard, Lurid Bolete, Netzstieliger Hexenröhrling, Változékony tinóru
Boletus luridus Mushroom
Ref No: 7280
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Boletus luridus2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7281
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location: North America
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Yellow, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: Olivaceous
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Boletus luridus Schaeff. ex Fr. Netzstieliger Hexenröhrling Változékony tinóru Bolet blafard Lurid Bolete Cap 6–14cm, snuff brown or olive brown with rusty or bay tints, slightly downy at first then becoming smooth and polished, bruising dark brownish or blue-black. Stem 80–140 x 10–30mm yellowish red with orange-red net, bruising blue. Flesh lemon-yellow in cap soon becoming greenish-blue to dark blue on cutting with a persistent red line above tubes, lemon in stem and blackish-red in stem base. Taste and smell not distinctive. Tubes yellowish-green, blue on cutting. Pores small, orange-red, more yellow at margin, bruising dark blue. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spore subfusiform to broadly ellipsoid, 11–15 x 4.5–6.5µ. Habitat in broad-leaved woods, particularly with oak or beech and on calcareous soils. Season summer to autumn. Occasional. Edible when cooked, but has been known to cause gastric upsets. (Two forms illustrated.) Distribution, America and Europe.

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Dejan Stojanovic (Yugoslavia) - 02 January 2013

Boletus luridus.
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Marjan Kustera (Yugoslavia) - 27 June 2012

Find and photo taken by Marjan Kuštera,Mushroom Society of Niš City,Serbia Village Gabrovac,City of Niš,Oak forest. 10.Jun 2012.
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 25 August 2010

280/6/2010 Szpital psychiatryczny Srebrzysko pod lipami.Boletus luridus var.primulicolor.Gdansk Poland
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 25 August 2010

08/09/2008 Gdansk Oliwa Poland
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Slobodan Nikolic (Yugoslavia) - 08 April 2010

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Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 13 October 2009

Hungarian name, Változékony tinoru
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