Xerocomus moravicus    (Vacek) Herink 

common name(s) : Tawny Bolete 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Boletaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Boletales/Boletaceae  

synonyms: Auroboletus moravicus, Xerocomus leonis, Boletus tumidus, Boletus moravicus, Boletus leonis, Xerocomus tumidus-peltereau 

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of  Xerocomus moravicus
photo gallery of  Xerocomus moravicus potential confusions with  Xerocomus moravicus toxicity of Xerocomus moravicus genus Xerocomus  

The cap is buff to ochre-brown or orange, hemispherical, then convex and expanded. The cap surface is downy, felty particularly near the centre, then eventually smooth and dry. The cap margin is thin, slightly exceeding.

The stem is of same colour as cap, darker towards base, of more or less equal cylindrical shape or tapering towards base.

The flesh is whitish, pale ochre to yellow; its taste is mild; the odour is faint or of pastry;

The tubes are yellow to olive-yellow, unchanging, from 4mm to 8mm long.

The pores are chrome-yellow, rather large (1 to 2 pores per mm). The spore print is lemon ochre or olive yellow.

It grows in well lit broad-leaved woods, parklands, along forest paths, on a rather calcareous soil, essentially with oak, but also with chestnut.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 9 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 7.5 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : brick-pink reaction of flesh to ammonia or potash; no reaction to iron sulphate or Melzer's (except in stem: dark brown).

Distinctive features : buff to ochre-brown or orange cap; yellowish mycelium; odour of pastry; yellowish tubes and pores, unchanging; with oaks

Xerocomus moravicus is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Xerocomus moravicus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Xerocomus moravicus in the forest of Rambouillet



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