Leccinum vulpinum

foxy bolete

Scientific identification: Leccinum vulpinum Watling
Family: Boletaceae
Class: Agaricomycetes
Genus: Leccinum

Names across languages

English: foxy bolete
German: Fuchsrotkappe
Finnish: Männynpunikkitatti
Estonian: Palupuravik
Russian: Красноголовик сосновый

The scientific profile

From the latest record: 2026-07-10.

Hymenium

Pores small, round, cream to whitish when young, later greyish-cream to yellowish-olive; tubes adnate to nearly free

Cap

Convex to broadly convex; dry, finely woolly-fibrillose; muted fox-red, reddish-brown to cocoa-brown, darker in the centre

Hymenium Attachment

Adnate to nearly free

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

Spore print brown to olive-brown

Ecology

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

Edibility

Good, tasty and edible after cooking

Fruit body

Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~8–14 cm long, ~1–3 cm thick

Dimensions

Cap ∅ ~3–9 cm

Flesh

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