Yellow Bolete
Description
Cap hemispherical to convex, Ø 6-12 cm, matt, fine felty, with overhanging margin, young bright yellow, then brownish, blue when damaged.
Tubes bright yellow. Pores bright yellow, then orange-brown, on bruising blue.
Stem 10-11 x 3-4 cm, pale yellow, granular, rough, tapered at the base. Flesh pale to dark yellow, quickly blue on bruising.
Taste mildly acid.
Spore-print colour olivaceous.
Occurrence
Near oaks and beeches in broad-leaved woods and poor roadsides on dry, acid, poor soils.
Forms ectomycorrhiza.