EDIBLE

Boletus erythropus.03

RED-FOOT BOLETE. DOTTED-STEM BOLETE.

Species which I have recently met, edible. Member of the prized Boletus family. It grows in groups of several specimens. As a curiosity, it is a mushroom that oxidizes on contact and turns its yellow flesh into an unmistakable blue.

Cap: Spherical, then hemispherical.

Stipe: Stipe without reticulation, reddish dotted.

Hymenium: Porous tubes, free from stipe.

Smell: Fungal.

Habitat: Forests with calcareous soils.

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