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Leccinum holopus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Ghost Bolete, Lápi érdestinóru, Moor-Birkenpilz
Leccinum holopus Mushroom
Ref No: 9117
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Leccinum holopus3 Mushroom
Ref No: 9119
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Leccinum holopus 8 Mushroom
Ref No: 21714
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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

Leccinum holopus (Rostk.) Watling syn. Boletus holopus Rostk. Moor-Birkenpilz Lápi érdestinóru (-tinóru) 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. Thanks to the Pash family for the last picture.

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james burris (Canada) - 12 February 2013

Found in New Brunswick Canada, boggy boreal forest. I liked the taste of it. Aug 2012.
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 24 February 2011

Kalisz kaszubski w brzezinach.Poland
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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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