Leccinum roseofractum    Watling 

common name(s) : Blushing Bolete 

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

edibility : edible

potential confusions with  Leccinum roseofractum toxicity of Leccinum roseofractum genus Leccinum  

The cap is dark brown, chestnut brown to almost blackish, fleshy, hemispherical at first then convex. The cap surface is greasy then dry, cracking at its centre into small scales.

The stem is rather short, full, firm, covered with small grey scales, these becoming black towards the base, and forming a kind of network. The stem's surface background colour is whitish.

The flesh is white, turning salmon pink to vinaceous red when in contact with air; its taste is faint and mild; the odour is weak and pleasant;

The tubes are thin, creamy white then ochre to brown.

The pores are thin, creamy white then ochre to brown. The spore print is ochraceous tobacco-brown.

It grows in broad-leaved woods, essentially with birch.

The fruiting period takes place from October to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 11 cm (between 7 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 0 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 0 and 40 mm)

Chemical tests : The flesh turns salmon pink when in contact with formaldehyde, greyish-olivaceous green with iron sulphate.

Distinctive features : dark brown to blackish cap; sturdy white stem, covered with grey then blackish scales from the bottom up; ochre to cream tubes and pores; flesh turning salmon pink to vinaceous red when exposed to air; with birch

Leccinum roseofractum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Leccinum roseofractum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Leccinum roseofractum in the forest of Rambouillet



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