12/Jul/2026, 7:48 AM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, near Oak and Linden trees, in mossy mawned grass
59°26'21.6"N 24°47'25.7"E
🌡️ 20°C 🌤️ Sunny, dispersed light 💨 Wind 40° NE->SW, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postHortiboletus rubellus
ruby bolete
- Scientific identification
- Hortiboletus rubellus (Krombh.) Simonini, Vizzini & Gelardi
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Hortiboletus
Names across languages
- English: ruby bolete
- German: Blutroter Röhrling
- Finnish: Punatarhatatti
- Estonian: Karmiin-sametpuravik
- Russian: Садовоборовик красный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-07-12.
Hymenium
Pores angular, yellow at first, becoming dull olive-yellow with age, bruising blue
Cap
Convex to broadly convex or nearly flat; dry, smooth to finely velvety when young; bright ruby-red, cherry-red to pinkish-red, often fading and cracking with age
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly depressed around the stipe
Stipe
Slender, yellow at apex, pinkish-red to red below, often with red dots or points, not reticulate
Spore print
Spore print: Olive-brown
Ecology
Ectomycorrhizal with broadleaved trees, especially oaks; in woodland edges, parks, gardens, lawns, meadows and disturbed roadsides; summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible but poor quality, often maggot-infested and sometimes described as soapy
Fruit body
Fruit body: Small to medium; stipe ~3–7 cm long, ~0.4–1 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap: ∅ ~2.5–6 cm
Flesh
Flesh: whitish to yellowish, slowly and slightly blueing when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH: Dull orange on cap surface and flesh
Odour
Mild, pleasant mushroomy
Taste
Slightly soapy
Microscopy
Spores subfusoid, smooth, ~10–13 × 4–5 µm; golden in KOH; hymenial cystidia lageniform; pileipellis a palisadoderm of septate, encrusted elements
Overview
Small ruby-red garden or oak-associated bolete with yellow pores that bruise blue
2015). In Vizzini, Index Fungorum 244: 1.
Field encounters
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