Borovik is beautiful (The most beautiful red mushroom)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Boletales (Boletales)
- Family: Boletaceae (Boletaceae)
- Rod: Red mushroom
- Type: Rubroboletus pulcherrimus (Beautiful Boletus)
This fungus belongs to the genus Rubroboletus, in the Boletaceae family.
The specific epithet pulcherrimus is Latin for “beautiful”.
The beautiful boletus belongs to poisonous mushrooms.
It causes gastric upset (symptoms of poisoning – diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain), poisoning passes without a trace, no deaths have been recorded.
It has a hat, the diameter of which is found from 7,5 to 25 cm. The shape of the hat is hemispherical, with a somewhat woolly surface. The color has various shades: from reddish to olive-brown.
The flesh of the mushroom is quite dense, has a yellow color. If you cut it, then the flesh turns blue on the cut.
The leg has a length of 7 to 15 cm, and a width of 10 cm. The shape of the leg is swollen, has a reddish-brown color, and in the lower part it is covered with a dark red mesh.
The tubular layer has grown with a tooth, and the tubules themselves have a yellow-green color. The length of the tubules reaches a difference of 0,5 to 1,5 cm.
The pores of the beautiful boletus are painted in a bright blood-red color. Moreover, the pores tend to turn blue when pressed.
The spore powder is brown in color, and the spores are 14,5 × 6 μm in size, spindle-shaped.
Borovik beautiful has a mesh on the leg.
The fungus is most widespread in mixed forests on the west coast of North America, as well as in the state of New Mexico.
The beautiful boletus forms mycorrhiza with such coniferous trees: stone fruit, pseudo-suga yew-leaved and great fir.
The growth season of this fungus falls at mushroom pickers at the end of summer and lasts until the end of autumn.