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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Leccinum aurantiacum (Orange Oak Bolete). The mushroom is Edible. It grows in Europe, North America.
Description: Leccinum aurantiacum, also known as Orange Oak Bolete, is a large or massive bolete that has a bun shaped orange cap, whitish pores and a scaly stem, which is darkening throughout where cut or bruised. It grows solitary or in small scattered groups on soil specifically under aspen.
Cap bright orange skin, at first round like a ball, then ovate or bun-shaped. It is sticky when damp and has, just like Leccinum versipelle, a larger skin that hangs down or is tucked under the margin of the cap. Flesh creamy-white then vinaceous or sepia where cut. Thick and firm. Pores white or cream, darkening vinaceous where bruised, circular. very small. Spores are ochraceous-buff. Stem dirty white, covered with woolly scales in irregular network, at first white then rust, stoutish, more or less equal or swollen towards base. The mushroom has no ring.
Similar species The most similar species is Leccinum versipelle, which differing from Leccinum aurantiacum grows under birch trees.
Leccinum aurantiacu on the www.first-nature.com web site.
Dimensions: Cap 5-10 cm diameter, stem 8-14 cm tall * 1.5-4.5 cm thick
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
