Leccinum carpini (R. Schulz) Moser ex Reid syn. Boletus carpini (R. Schulz) Pearson Hainbuchen-Rauhfuss Bolet raboteux, Bolet des charmes. Cap 3–9cm, pale buff, snuff-brown or tawny olive, slightly wrinkled and often cracked. Stem 80–90 x 8–11mm, punctate with pale buff scales at apex and darker brown scales below, blackening on handling. Flesh in stem white to straw-coloured and in the stem base immediately blue spotted but rose or vinaceous in the cap and stem apex, rapidly blackening throughout. Tubes white or cream, rapidly coral or vinaceous or cutting, then blackening. Pores small, white at first then yellowish buff, blackening on handling. Spore print ochraceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 15–19 x5–6um. Surface of cap composed of erect chains of globose to barrel-shaped segments. Habitat with hazel or hornbeam, occasionally with oak. Season summer. Rare. Edible – not worthwhile. Found In Europe. |