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Boletinus cavipes.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Bolet â pied creux, Hohlfussröhrling
Boletinus cavipes Mushroom
Ref No: 7192
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
spore colour: Olivaceous
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Boletinus cavipes (Opat.) Kalchbr. syn. Boletus cavipes Opat. Hohlfussröhrling Bolet â pied creux Cap 3–8cm across, convex or slightly umbonate then expanding often becoming irregular or lobed at the margin, entirely golden yellow or more often rusty-tawny to umber, suede-like or even felty scaly. Stem 40–80 x 10–20mm, lemon yellow with an indistinct net above the white cottony ring, darker and covered in brownish fibrils below. Flesh whitish, tinged yellow in cap and sometimes pinkish in stem. Taste and smell pleasant. Tubes short, yellowish then flushed olivaceous. Pores large, angular, concolorous with tubes. Spore print olivaceous. Spores subcylindric to fusiform, 7–10 x 3–4µ. Habitat with larch. Season late summer. Rare. Edible – poor. Distribution, America and Europe.

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