Description
Cap convex to cushion-shaped or vaulted, 5-12 cm, matt when dry, brown red to pink-red or blood-red, sometimes faintly olive coloured or with brown or yellowish patches, tunring darker under pressure.
Tubes tortuous attached, bright yellow to sulphurous yellow, turning strongly blue after damaging. Pores round to angular-round, bright yellow to sulphurous or golden yellow, turning blue when bruised.
Stem 6-12 x 2.5-3.5 cm, bulbous, yellowish to pink-red or red at the base, with towards the apex a yellowish and towards below turning red to wine red network, turning blue at pressure. Flesh white-yellow or yellow to pink or reddish, turning blue to blue-green when bruised. Taste mild. Smell pleasant.
Spore-print colour olive-coloured brown.
Edible.
Occurrence
Near old Limes and Oaks in lanes on river clay.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.
Related and/or similar species
- Boletus luridus, Lurid Bolete