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| synonyms: Ghost Bolete, Moor-Birkenpilz |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: White to cream |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged |
| spore colour: Light to dark brown |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Leccinum holopus (Rostk.) Watling syn. Boletus holopus Rostk. Moor-Birkenpilz Ghost Bolete. Cap 4–7(10)cm, dirty white to pale buff becoming darker and flushed greenish with age, smooth, viscid when fresh. Stem 80–110´8–15(30)mm, white or pale buff, covered with white scales discolouring cinnamon with age. Flesh soft, white, blue green in stem base, often pink elsewhere or unchanging. Taste and smell pleasant. Tubes white to clay-buff. Pores white to buff, flushed cinnamon with age or on bruising. Spore print cinnamon-ochraceous buff. Spores subfusiform, 17.5–20´5.5–6.5m. Habitat amongst sphagnum under birches. Season autumn. Rare. Edible – not worthwhile. Distribution, America and Europe.
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David Edington (United Kingdom) - 08 March 2009
A small troop of three was found near a stream in a wet boggy depression alongside a boardwalk at Castle Bottom NNR, Eversley, Hants, UK in July 2008. The specimen shown in photo was dried and sent to the ABFG for verification.
David Edington
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