🇬🇧 cep - 🇩🇪 Gemeiner Steinpilz - 🇪🇪 Harilik kivipuravik - 🇷🇺 Боровик съедобный 9/10/10—9/28/25
🆔 Boletus edulis Bull.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores—small, rounded, whitish when young, aging to greenish-yellow or olive tones
ℹ️ Cap: Convex when young, flattening with age, smooth to slightly velvety or slightly sticky when moist, color ranges from light tan to reddish-brown
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to slightly decurrent
ℹ️ Stipe: Solid, robust, cylindrical to slightly clubbed, whitish to pale cream with a fine reticulate pattern, especially near the apex
🟤🟢 Spore print olive-brown
🌳 Ectomycorrhizal with conifers and deciduous trees (pines, spruces, oaks, beeches) in forest or mixed settings, fruits in summer to autumn
👑 Choice edible, highly prized for flavor and texture
📏 Fruit body large, stipe 8–20 x ~10 cm
📐 Cap 7–30 cm in diameter
🔪 Flesh is white and unchanging when cut, no blue staining
🧪 KOH reaction: dull orange color change on the flesh, cap surface remains negative
👃 Mild, pleasant, mushroomy
👅 Mild, nutty, savory (when cooked)
🔬 Spores subfusiform (ellipsoid to spindle-shaped), smooth, ~14–17×5–7µm, basidia predominantly 4-sterigmate
🔤 Large, robust, edible bolete with a brown, convex cap, white flesh that resists staining, stipe adorned with a reticulation
🇬🇧 cep - 🇩🇪 Gemeiner Steinpilz - 🇪🇪 Harilik kivipuravik - 🇷🇺 Боровик съедобный