24/Aug/24, 17:55 PM
Kloostrimetsa, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Mixed forest, near cemetery, on hill with shrubbery
59°28'16.2"N 24°52'31.3"E
🔆 Overcast, shaded forest spot
Original Instagram postXerocomellus chrysenteron
red cracking bolete
- Scientific identification
- Xerocomellus chrysenteron (Bull.) Šutara
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Xerocomellus
Names across languages
- English: red cracking bolete
- German: Gemeiner Rotfußröhrling
- Finnish: Rusoruututatti
- Estonian: Punajalg-sametpuravik
- Russian: Моховик трещиноватый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-08-24.
Hymenium
Pores, small and angular, yellow to olive-yellow when young, becoming olive-brown with age
Cap
Convex, becoming flat with age, dry and velvety, cracked with a reddish flesh, color reddish-brown
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly depressed around the stipe
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, often tapering at the base, yellowish with reddish streaks, surface smooth or slightly reticulate near the top, no ring or veil
Spore print
Spore print olive-brown
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with oaks, beeches, and pines, found on acidic soils, late summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible but of mediocre quality, has slimy texture
Fruit body
Medium, cap 3–8 cm in diameter, stipe 4–10 cm long, 0.5–2 cm thick
Chemical reactions
Ammonia negative to brownish on cap, negative on flesh, KOH negative to brownish on cap, orangish on flesh, iron salts olive on cap, negative on flesh
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Spores boletoid-fusiform, smooth, 10–14 x 3–4 µm, yellowish to golden in KOH, inamyloid
Overview
Medium bolete, recognized by its cracked, velvety cap revealing reddish flesh
2008). Czech Mycol. 60(1): 49.
Field encounters
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