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

Boletus campestris Mushroom
Ref No: 7223
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location: North America
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: Olivaceous
habitat: Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Boletus campestris Smith & Thiers Cap 3-5cm across, broadly convex; deep rose red to blood when young, paler, browner with age; dry, velvety, often cracking. Tubes 6-8mm deep, depressed at the stem, bright lemon yellow then greenish yellow, bruising blue. Pores 1-2 per mm, round to angular; same color as tubes. Stem 40-50 x 5-l0mm, equal; yellow at apex, reddish below, base with bright yellow tomentum. Flesh bright yellow bruising blue-green. Odor pleasant. Taste pleasant. Spores inequilateral long ellipsoid, 11-14 x 4.5-6µ. Deposit olive-brown. Habitat gregarious in short grass in lawns and woodland edges. Found widely distributed in eastern North America. Season June-September. Edible.

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