Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Bitter Beech Bolete

Facts
Common Name: 
Bitter Beech Bolete
Scientific Name: 
Boletus calopus
Cap Diameter (mm): 
50-140
Stem Height (mm): 
70-90
Stem Diameter (mm): 
35-45
Information
Description: 
Cap smoke or clay-grey-beige or flushed ochraceous with age. Downy at first then smooth. Pores pale lemon yellow to dirty sulhur with age bruising 'turqoise' blue. Stem stocky, lemon yellow at apex, elsewhere red, brown at base with white network above to concolorous below. Flesh whitish to pale straw, immediately white on cutting, shortly turning 'turqoise' blue.
Habitat: 
Mixed woodland but with a preferrence for beech and or oak.