Red-cracked Bolete
Description
Cap hemispherical to convex, Ø 4-11 cm, matt, cracking into red and yellow fissures, dingy brown to olive-brown, occasionally with pink-red tinge.
Tubes sulphur-yellow or lemon-yellow to greenish. Pores large, angular, sulphur-yellow to lemon-yellow, turning green-blue on bruising.
Stem 4-8 cm x 10-15 mm, lemon-yellow at the apex, with reddish central part turning red to red-brown towards the base. Flesh cream to lemon-yellow, turning slightly bluish. Taste faint. Smell faint.
Spore-print colour olive-brown.
Suspect.
Occurrence
Common near deciduous trees (Beech, Oak) rare near coniferous trees, in deciduous and mixed woodland, along avenues and roadsides with old trees on humus-rich soil. Summer to autumn.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.
Related and/or similar species
- Boletus chrysenteron