Boletus versicolor Rostk. Bunter Röhrling Bolet multicolore Cap 3–6cm, red, scarlet or vinaceous, with a faint olivaceous flush near margin or disc. Stem slender and often very long, up to 75mm, lemon-yellow or lemon-chrome at apex, red elsewhere becoming rusty towards the base. Flesh dirty buff or straw-coloured in cap, lemon-yellow in stem apex, vinaceous or blood-red below and brownish at the base, blueing slowly over tubes. Taste and smell not distinct. Tubes lemon-yellow with greenish flush when older. Pores large, angular, similarly coloured, bruising blue. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 11–14´4.5–5.5m. Habitat with broad-leaved trees in grass. Season autumn. Rare. Edible but not good. Found In Europe. Now normally called B. rubellus. |