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| synonyms: Bolet Poivré, Chalciporus piperatus, Chalciporus piperatus, Peppery Bolete, Pfefferröhrling |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Red or redish or pink |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped |
| stem type: Simple stem |
| spore colour: Olivaceous |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Boletus piperatus Bull. ex Fr. new syn. Chalciporus piperatus syn. Suillus piperatus (Fr.) Kuntze
Pfefferröhrling Bolet Poivré Peppery Bolete Cap 3–7cm, cinnamon to sienna, at first slightly viscid then dry, smooth and shiny. Stem 40–75 x 5–20mm, concolorous with cap, slender, tapering towards base, where it is a distinctive lemon-chrome. Flesh flushed red above tubes and under cuticle, intensely lemon-chrome in stem base. Taste peppery, smell not distinctive. Tubes cinnamon then rust-coloured, not bruising, decurrent or subdecurrent. Pores angular, rich rust-coloured at maturity. Spore print snuff-brown flushed ochraceous cinnamon. Spores subfusiform to ellipsoid, 8–11 x 3–4µ. Habitat variable, particularly in birch scrub or mixed pine and birch on sandy soil. Season late summer to autumn. Occasional. Edible – peppery flavoured. Distribution, America and Europe. The last two pictures came from Miroslaw Wantoch-Rekowski, many thanks. |
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Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 05 February 2009
Hungarian name, Borsos tinoru
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Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 15 December 2008
In my experience, this mushroom loses its hotness or pungency when fried. I have never tried simple cooking, but after baking its taste becomes more or less like that of B. (S.) granulatus, with a faint remainder of peppery character in some of the caps only.
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