Boletus pruinatus Fr. & Hök
Bereifter Röhrling Cap 4–10cm, dark red-brown or chestnut when young becoming lighter and more pink with age, with a hoary bloom which is destroyed by handling. Stem 90–100 x 20–30mm lemon-yellow or yellow-chrome at apex, irregularly covered with fine blood-red dots, base more red and arising from apricot-coloured mycelium. Flesh lemon-chrome throughout with darker brown base, slowly turning blue-green on cutting. Taste and smell not distinctive. Tubes lemon-yellow, becoming bluish with age. Pores small, similarly coloured. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 11.5–14 x 4.5–5.5µ. Habitat mixed broad-leaved woods, especially when beech is present. Season summer and autumn. Rare. Edible but not worthwhile. Found In Europe.