Peppery Bolete
Description
Cap hemispherical, Ø 3-7 cm, ochrous to reddish brown.
Tubes slightly decurrent, cinnamon to rusty brown. Pores angular, reddish brown.
Stem 1-4 cm x 5-20 mm, slender, yellow-brown, with tapering, lemon-yellow base. Flesh reddish brown, lemon-yellow in stem base. Taste pungent. Smell faint.
Spore-print colour dark cinnamon-brown.
Suspect.
Occurrence
Fairly common near deciduous trees (Birch, Beech, Oak), occasionally near coniferous trees, along roadsides with poor soil, occasionally in deciduous or mixed woods, on poor sandy and loamy soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.