Description
Cap irregularly convex, Ø 4-8 cm, matt, felty, red- or olive-brown to cinnamon-brown. Tubes and pores distant, decurrent, like radially tapering gills, often with transverse connections, bright yellow or yellow-orange to rusty-brown, discolouring brown on bruising.
Stem fibrous-flocky, 2-7 x 1-1,5 cm, tapered at the base, pale yellow, often red-brown at the apex. Flesh soft, (pale) yellow.
Taste mild, nutty. Smell mushroomy.
Spore-print colour yellow ochre to yellow-brown with an olivaceous tinge.
Occurrence
With oaks and hornbeams, sometimes with coniferous trees, in woods on moderately rich, sandy and loamy soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.