Oak Bolete

Leccinum quercinum

Oak woods, deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies robust, fleshy. Cap grows up to 20 cm across, fibrous, scaly, orange-brown, reddish-brown. Tubes and pores grey. Stem 10—15 (20)x2-4 (5) cm, white, when young with white, later reddish-violet fibrils. Flesh white, firm, thick, with a pleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: grows only under oaks, less often under beeches; when pressed or cut, the white flesh turns pinkish, eventually becoming greyish-violet. Usually appears singly or a few fruiting bodies together, in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests (under oaks). Edible, very valuable. Found much more rarely than the Orange Birch Bolete and the Blackish-scaled Bolete.