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synonyms: Bitter Bolete, Bolet amer, Bolet chicotin, Bolet de fiel, Gallenröhrling
Tylopilus felleus Mushroom
Ref No: 9616
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Tylopilus felleus3 Mushroom
Ref No: 9618
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Tylopilus felleus2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9619
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Tylopilus felleus (Fr.) Karst. syn Boletus felleus Fr. Gallenröhrling Bolet de fiel, Bolet amer, Bolet chicotin, Bitter Bolete. Cap 6–12cm, fulvous to snuff-brown, slightly downy at first, smooth with age. Stem 70–100 x 20–30 (60 at base) creamy ochre, lighter at apex, covered in a coarse snuff-brown network. Flesh soft, white to cream, clay-pink beneath cap cuticle. Taste very bitter, like bile, smell slightly unpleasant. Tubes slightly salmon or coral. Pores similarly coloured, bruising brownish. Spore print clay-pink to vinaceous. Spores subfusoid, 11–15´4–5m. Habitat coniferous and deciduous woodland. Season late summer to autumn. Occasional. Not edible due to very bitter taste. Distribution, America and Europe.

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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 07 February 2012

Bory Tucholskie.Poland
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Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 02 September 2011

Hungarian name, Epeizü tinoru
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