| Xerocomus armeniacus (Quél.) Quél. |
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New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Boletaceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Boletales/Boletaceae synonyms: Xerocomellus armeniacus, Boletus armeniacus, Xerocomellus armeniacus
edibility : edible
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The cap is lilac pink to orange pink or apricot, fleshy, convex then expanded. The cap surface is dry and never viscid, downy-felty, often cracking into large patches when drying. The stem is yellowish to concolorous with cap, cinnamon-orange at its base, slightly striate, tapering towards base and slightly rooting. The flesh is pale yellow, cinnamon-orange at the stem base, turning blue slowly when cut, especially in the stem's apex or above the tubes; its taste is mild, faint; the odour is faint or indistinct; The tubes are adnate to almost decurrent, short. They are yellow then become greenish-ochre, turning blue when cut. The pores are large, bright yellow, turning blue when pressed. The spore print is olive brown. It grows in broad-leaved woods, but also with conifers, in grassy and well lit places. The fruiting period takes place from SeptemberSeptember to -January.
Distinctive features : lilac pink to orange pink or apricot coloured cap, often cracked when drying; yellow stem, but cinnamon-orange at its base, yellow to green pores, turning blue when pressed Xerocomus armeniacus is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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