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

synonyms: Bolet multicolore, Bunter Röhrling
Boletus versicolor Mushroom
Ref No: 7346
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Boletus versicolor2 Mushroom
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Boletus versicolor3 Mushroom
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink
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 versicolor Rostk. Bunter Röhrling Bolet multicolore Cap 3–6cm, red, scarlet or vinaceous, with a faint olivaceous flush near margin or disc. Stem slender and often very long, up to 75mm, lemon-yellow or lemon-chrome at apex, red elsewhere becoming rusty towards the base. Flesh dirty buff or straw-coloured in cap, lemon-yellow in stem apex, vinaceous or blood-red below and brownish at the base, blueing slowly over tubes. Taste and smell not distinct. Tubes lemon-yellow with greenish flush when older. Pores large, angular, similarly coloured, bruising blue. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 11–14´4.5–5.5m. Habitat with broad-leaved trees in grass. Season autumn. Rare. Edible but not good. Found In Europe. Now normally called B. rubellus.

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