Boletus piperatus Bull. ex Fr. new syn. Chalciporus piperatus syn. Suillus piperatus (Fr.) Kuntze
Pfefferröhrling Bolet Poivré Peppery Bolete Cap 3–7cm, cinnamon to sienna, at first slightly viscid then dry, smooth and shiny. Stem 40–75 x 5–20mm, concolorous with cap, slender, tapering towards base, where it is a distinctive lemon-chrome. Flesh flushed red above tubes and under cuticle, intensely lemon-chrome in stem base. Taste peppery, smell not distinctive. Tubes cinnamon then rust-coloured, not bruising, decurrent or subdecurrent. Pores angular, rich rust-coloured at maturity. Spore print snuff-brown flushed ochraceous cinnamon. Spores subfusiform to ellipsoid, 8–11 x 3–4µ. Habitat variable, particularly in birch scrub or mixed pine and birch on sandy soil. Season late summer to autumn. Occasional. Edible – peppery flavoured. Distribution, America and Europe. The last two pictures came from Miroslaw Wantoch-Rekowski, many thanks.