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Boletus calopus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Bitter Beech Bolete, Cèpe beau pied, Dickfussröhrling, Schönfussröhrling, Farkastinóru
Boletus calopus Mushroom
Ref No: 6699
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Boletus calopus 2 Mushroom
Ref No: 6700
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Boletus calopus Fr. Dickfussröhrling, Farkastinóru (tinóru) Cèpe beau pied, Bitter Beech Bolete syn. B. pachypus Fr. Cap 5–14cm, smoke-grey or flushed olivaceous, slightly downy at first then smooth, sometimes slightly cracked or scaly at centre with age. Stem 70–90 x 35–40(50)mm, robust, lemon-yellow at apex, elsewhere red although frequently brown at base, covered with a white or straw-coloured network. Flesh pale straw-coloured to pale lemon-yellow becoming whitish immediately on cutting then flushed blue especially in stem apex and over the tubes, sometimes patchily red at base of stem. Taste bitter, smell strong. Tubes dirty sulphur-yellow, bruising bluish-green. Pores similarly coloured, also bruising bluish-green. Spore print olivaceous snuff-brown. Spores subfusiform, 12–16 x 4.5–5.5µ. Habitat in mixed woodland, particularly with beech or oak. Season late summer to autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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mladen ormuž (Croatia) - 26 April 2015

Boletus calopus 2
artemis gordon (United States) - 07 December 2012

beautiful colour. Drastic blush upon cutting.
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lee collins (United Kingdom) - 11 August 2010

Boletus calopus found under beech
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Vina Simona (Romania) - 13 July 2009

Found it on 5 July 2009
Boletus calopus 2
Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 03 March 2009

Hungarian name, Farkastinoru
Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 23 October 2008

Boletus calopus.Jezioro Ostrzyckie Kaszuby Polska.Buczyna.
Boletus calopus 2
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