Rhizopogon luteolus    Fr. & Nordholm 

common name(s) : Yellow False Truffle 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Rhizopogonaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae  

synonyms: Rhizopogon obtextus 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Rhizopogon luteolus
photo gallery of  Rhizopogon luteolus potential confusions with  Rhizopogon luteolus toxicity of Rhizopogon luteolus genus Rhizopogon  

The fruiting body is irregularly globular, tough, half or completely buried, with visible external veins and a thick skin, whitish to yellow olive then brown.

the odour is mushroomy, fetid when mature.

The fertile surface is.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather acid soil, with pine.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 4 cm (between 1.5 and 8 cm)

Distinctive features : irregular potatoe-shaped body; body covered with thin veins (mycelial strands); dawny, white then ochre, thick outer surface; half-buried, with pines

Rhizopogon luteolus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Rhizopogon luteolus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Rhizopogon luteolus in the forest of Rambouillet



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