Bolete Boletus queletii Schulzer
Glattstieliger Hexenröhrling Cèpe de Quelet Deceiving Cap 5–15cm, red-brown to brick colour, minutely pruinose at first particularly towards the margin, becoming more polished, bruising bluish-black on handling. Stem 70–100 x 25–45mm, yellow flushed with coral from apex to middle and minutely dotted with red or orange, more red towards the base. Flesh lemon-yellow in cap immediately turning blue on cutting sometimes with a red line above tubes, base of stem blackish purple. Taste and smell not distinctive. Tubes dirty ochre becoming bluish olivaceous on cutting. Pores initially peach becoming more orange then rusty, with a pale zone at margin, bruising dark blue. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 12–14 x 5.5–6.5µ. Habitat with broad-leaved trees, especially beech and oak in South-east England. Season autumn. Rare. Edible. Found In Europe.