Beautiful-legged boletus (Caloboletus calopus) photo and description

Beautiful-legged pain (Caloboletus calopus)

• Borovik is beautiful
• Boletus inedible

Photo by Michal Mikšík

Description:

The cap is light brown, olive-light brown, brown or brown-gray, smooth, occasionally wrinkled, slightly fibrous in young mushrooms, dull, dry, glabrous with age, at first semicircular, later convex with a wrapped and unevenly wavy edge, 4 -15 cm.

The tubules are initially lemon-yellow, later olive-yellow, turning blue on the cut, 3-16 mm long, notched or free at the stem. The pores are rounded, small, grayish-yellow at first, later lemon-yellow, with a greenish tinge with age, turn blue when pressed.

Spores 12-16 x 4-6 microns, ellipsoid-fusiform, smooth, ocher. Spore powder brownish-olive.

The stem is initially barrel-shaped, then club-shaped or cylindrical, sometimes pointed at the base, made, 3-15 cm high and 1-4 cm thick. In the upper part it is lemon yellow with a white fine mesh, in the middle part it is carmine red with a noticeable red mesh, in the lower part it is usually brown-red, at the base it is white. Over time, the red color may be lost.

The pulp is dense, hard, whitish, light cream, turning blue in places on the cut (mainly in the cap and in the upper part of the leg). The taste is sweet at first, then very bitter, without much odor.

Spread:

The beautiful-legged bolet grows on the soil from July to October in coniferous forests in mountainous areas under spruce trees, occasionally in deciduous forests.

The similarity:

The legged boletus is somewhat similar to the poisonous common oak tree (Boletus luridus) when raw, but it has red pores, a mild fleshy taste, and grows predominantly under deciduous trees. You can confuse the beautiful-legged Bolet with the Satanic mushroom (Boletus satanas). It is characterized by a whitish cap and carmine-red pores. The rooting boletus (Boletus radicans) looks like a beautiful-legged Bolet.

Evaluation:

Not edible due to unpleasant bitter taste.