Xerocomus moravicus (Vacek) Herink |
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.
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 . | ||
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