Yellow-cracked Bolete (Leccinum nigrescens)

Leccinum nigrescens

Oak woods, mixed forests with oak and hazel. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies not robust. Cap 5-10 cm across, rarely larger (12-15 cm), mostly domed, only when old flat, dry, matt, greenish-yellowish-brown, orange-yellow with a brown tinge, yellowish-fibrous. Tubes 1—2 (3) cm long, greyish-yellow; pores yellowish, lemon yellow, in old mushrooms greenish-brownish, violet-brown when pressed. Flesh lemon yellow, turning pinkish when cut or broken and later darkening to black, not bitter. Characteristic features: tubes lemon yellow, turning pinkish when pressed or cut, eventually blackening; likes the company of oak. Grows singly, under oaks and hazels. Rare, edible.