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synonyms: Bolet satan, Devil’s Bolete, Satan’s Bolete, Satanpilz, Sátántinóru
Boletus satanas2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7328
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Boletus satanas3 Mushroom
Ref No: 7329
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Boletus satanus Chloe Douglas Mushroom
Ref No: 20556
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Deadly
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Bulbous base of stem, Simple stem
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: Olivaceous
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Boletus satanas Lenz. Satan’s or Devil’s Bolete, Bolet satan, Satanpilz, Sátántinóru (-tinóru), Boleto satana, porcino malefico, Satansboleet. Cap 8–25cm, almost white with buff or sepia flush frequently with faint red flush at margin, becoming flushed ochre with age, slightly downy then smooth with minute cracks particularly at centre, bruising brown with handling. Stem 60–90 x 50–110mm, often markedly swollen at base, saffron orange to lemon-chrome at apex, red with ochre flush at base, covered with a red net. Flesh pale straw-coloured to saffron in cap, white or pale lemon in stem gradually becoming pale sky blue on cutting with rusty patches in stem and dirty buff fading to greenish blue or blotched with red at stem base. Taste and smell unpleasant. Tubes yellowish green then dark olivaceous, blue on cutting. Pores small, round, blood-red but orange towards the margin, finally tinged orange, bruising greenish. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 11–14 x 4.5–6.5µ. Habitat with broad-leaved trees, especially beech and oak, usually on calcareous soils. Season summer. Very rare. Poisonous – possibly deadly. Distribution, America and Europe.The third picture is from Chloe and Brian Douglas many thanks.

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Peter Neumann () - 24 September 2015

Boletus satanus Chloe Douglas
Gerhard Bissell (United Kingdom) - 06 September 2015

Are these two mushrooms Boletus Satanas? Found 5 September 2015 next to each other in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire.
Boletus satanus Chloe Douglas
Tudor Ioana (Romania) - 21 December 2012

Tudor Ioana si Paul Covic, Romania, 21 decembrie 2012
Boletus satanus Chloe Douglas
gary palmer (United Kingdom) - 02 October 2010

boletus satanus, bisected
Boletus satanus Chloe Douglas
gary palmer (United Kingdom) - 02 October 2010

boletus satanus, new forest.
Boletus satanus Chloe Douglas
Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 03 March 2009

Hungarian name, Sátántinoru
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