🇺🇸 foxy bolete - 🇩🇪 Fuchsrotkappe - 🇪🇪 Palupuravik - 🇷🇺 Красноголовик сосновый 9/28/19—7/12/26
🆔 Leccinum vulpinum Watling
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores small, round, cream to whitish when young, later greyish-cream to yellowish-olive; tubes adnate to nearly free
ℹ️ Cap: Convex to broadly convex; dry, finely woolly-fibrillose; muted fox-red, reddish-brown to cocoa-brown, darker in the centre
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to nearly free
ℹ️ Stipe: Stout, whitish to pale, slightly swollen toward base; covered with scabers that darken from whitish to reddish-brown, then dark brown or chocolate
🟤🟢 Spore print brown to olive-brown
🌲 Ectomycorrhizal with conifers, especially Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), in dry pine woods, coniferous and mixed forests, often on sandy or acidic soils; summer to autumn
🍳 Good, tasty and edible after cooking
📏 Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~8–14 cm long, ~1–3 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ ~3–9 cm
🔪 Flesh white to pale; cap flesh mostly unchanging, stipe flesh slowly pinkish to wine-coloured, sometimes blue-green near the base, later greyish or steel-blue in patches
🧪 No distinctive KOH macroscopic field reaction
👃 Pleasant, mushroomy
👅 Mild
🔬 Spores fusiform to subfusiform, smooth, ~11–16.5 × 3–4.7 µm; basidia 4-spored; cystidia ventricose to fusiform
🔤 Fox-red pine-associated with scaber-stalk and muted cap colour
🇺🇸 foxy bolete - 🇩🇪 Fuchsrotkappe - 🇪🇪 Palupuravik - 🇷🇺 Красноголовик сосновый