A medium to large bolete with a pale-brown cap solitary or scattered in braodleaf woodland with Oak.
Infrequent during Summer.
Scattered on soil, preferably with Oak.
Convex, downy at first then matt and cracked, hazel-brown with ochre tinges, cuticle slightly overhanging the margin.
Cap flesh thick and firm, straw to brick coloured, blackening where cut. Stem flesh grey, firm and full, becoming vinaceous. No distinctive odour or taste.
Pores circular and small, lemon-yellow, darkening brown where bruised. Tubes concolorous with pores, depressed, blackening where cut.
Slender,straw coloured, more or less equal or slightly swollen towards the base, covered with wooly scales in an irregular buff or cinnamon network. No ring.
