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The boletus mushroom is usually put in an honorable third place in terms of taste after boletus and boletus. If the boletus grows next to the aspen, its hat will, as a rule, be a rich dark red color. However, these gifts of the forest also live under other trees. If you don’t know what a boletus mushroom looks like growing next to a poplar, then you may not recognize it – its hat is faded, not much like the usual dark red.
On this page you will learn about the types of boletus, their counterparts, use in cooking and traditional medicine. You can also get information about where the boletus grows, whose neighborhood it prefers, and see a photo and description of what the boletus looks like.
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Boletus ordinary and his photo
Category: edible.
Cap of the common boletus (Leccinum aurantiacum) (diameter 5-28 cm): brown with shades of red or orange. It has the shape of a hemisphere and is easily separated from the leg. The peel is removed with difficulty and only with pieces of pulp.
Leg (height 4-18 cm): solid gray or off-white. The photo and description of the leg of the common boletus is similar to the leg of the oak boletus – the same fibrous scales are located on it, which eventually become almost black.
Tubular layer: free, white, yellowish or olive. In old or wormy mushrooms, dirty gray or brownish.
Pulp: fleshy and dense, elastic in a young mushroom, and soft and loose in an old one. On the cut, it is immediately white, after a few minutes it becomes bluish, and later turns black. Does not have a distinct aroma.
Doubles: edible yellow-brown boletus (Leccinum versipelle) and colored-legged (Tylopilus chromapes). Yellow-brown has a lighter cap and flesh, which first turns pink, then turns blue on the cut, and the colored leg has a yellowish leg.
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When growing: from early June to mid-October in many countries of Eurasia, the Caucasus, the Far East, the Urals and Western Siberia.
Where can I find: in deciduous and mixed forests. Prefers neighborhood with aspens, willows, birches, oaks and poplars. Never grows near coniferous trees. Occasionally it can be found in glades, not far from aspen forests.
Eating: in almost any form, only when frying, drying and boiling it becomes very dark.
Use in traditional medicine (data are not confirmed and have not been clinically tested!): in the form of a tincture, it is an excellent remedy for cleansing the blood and skin, which is considered effective against acne.
Other names: krasnik, krasyuk, red mushroom, redhead, aspen.
Depending on the time of appearance, the people call the ordinary boletus “spikelet” (if it is an early mushroom), “stubbler” (the so-called later boletus), and closes the season “leaf fall”.
What does the oak boletus mushroom look like
Category: edible.
Cap of oak boletus (Leccinum quercinum) (diameter 6-16 cm): chestnut, brown or slightly orange, in the form of a hemisphere or swollen pads.
Leg (height 8-15 cm): brown or brown, often with small scales. Cylindrical, slightly thickened at the base.
Tubular layer: brown, with very fine pores.
Pulp: very dense, white, with brown or grayish spots. It turns black at the cut site and when exposed to air.
Doubles: are absent.
When growing: from the beginning of August to the end of September in the countries of the northern temperate zone.
Where can I find: most often in oak forests.
Eating: very tasty in almost any form.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: redhead oak, oak obabok.
Description of yellow-brown boletus
Category: edible.
The photo and description of the boletus mushroom of this species differs from others in the brightness of the cap. Its diameter is 4-17 cm, most often the hat is yellow-brown, brownish or orange. In young Leccinum versipelle it is hemisphere-shaped, in others it resembles a swollen pad. Feels dry and never sticky or slippery.
Leg (height 6-25 cm): grayish in color, with small scales along the entire length, tapering from bottom to top.
Tubular layer: with small pores of gray or olive color.
Pulp: very dense, immediately white at the cut or fracture site, gradually changing to greenish in the stem, slightly pink in the cap, and then blue-violet in both parts.
Doubles: boletus relatives differ in the shades of the cap and the size of the stem or cap.
When growing: from mid-June to early November in the northern part of Europe and the Far East.
Where can I find: on damp soils of all types of forests, especially in the neighborhood of pines and birches.
Eating: very tasty mushroom in any form.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: the boletus is red-brown, the boletus is different-skinned.