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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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Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Boletus pinophilus (Pinewood King Bolete). The mushroom is Edible and excellent. It grows in Europe.
Description: This is a large bolete with dark brown cap, cream pores, reddish brown netted, bulbous stem, commonly known as the pine bolete or pinewood king bolete. It grows solitary or scattered on soil particularly with Scots pine in Britain. The mushroom prefers the poor, acidic, and sandy soils associated with coniferous forests.
Cap deep red-brown or copper coloured. Stays convex for a while, but eventually flattens out. Often irregular in shape when mature. The surface is hard, dimpled and rough and sticky when damp. The flesh is white, tinged cap color beneath the cuticle, unchanging, thick, fairly firm. Pores white then cream colored, becoming olivaceous-brown with age, circular and small. Spores pallid olivaceous-yellow colored. Stem thick and egg pr pear shaped when young. The network pattern is dark brown at the bottom and gets lighter towards the cap. Flesh white, unchanging and fairly firm. The mushroom has no ring.
Similar species The closely related Boletus edulis has brown color and grows with Pine. Tylopilus felleus is similar when young but tastes bitter and is thus inedible.
Boletus pinophilus on Wikipedia.
Dimensions: Cap 6–15(20) cm; stem 5-15 cm tall * 4-7 cm diameter
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
