Phylloporus rose gold (Phylloporus pelletieri)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Boletales (Boletales)
  • Family: Boletaceae (Boletaceae)
  • Genus: Phylloporus (Phylloporus)
  • Type: Phylloporus pelletieri (Phylloporus rose gold)
  • Xerocomus pelletieri

:

  • Agaricus Pelletieri
  • Agaric paradox
  • boletus paradoxus
  • Clitocybe pelletieri
  • Flammula paradoxa
  • A small paradox
  • A small paradox
  • A little furrier
  • Phylloporus paradoxus
  • Xerocomus pelletieri

Hat: from 4 to 7 cm in diameter, while the mushroom is young – hemispherical, later – flattened, somewhat depressed; the thin edge is first wrapped, and then hangs slightly. Dry reddish-brown skin, somewhat velvety in young specimens, smooth and easily cracked in mature specimens.

Phylloporus rose gold (Phylloporus pelletieri) photo and description

Laminae: Thick, bridged, with a waxy feel, labyrinthinely branched, descending, yellow-gold.

Phylloporus rose gold (Phylloporus pelletieri) photo and description

Stem: Cylindrical, curved, with longitudinal ribs, yellowish to buff, with fine fibers of the same color as the cap.

Flesh: not very firm, purple-brown on the cap and yellowish-white on the stalk, low odor and taste.

In summer, it grows in a group under oak, chestnut and less often under conifers.

A completely edible mushroom, but without any culinary value due to its rarity and low fleshiness.

Photo: champignons.aveyron.free.fr, Valery.

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