Orange Birch Bolete

Leccinum versipelle

Forests, parks, groves with birch. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies robust, fleshy. Cap grows up to 20 cm across, fibrous, scaly, orange-yellow, yellowish-brown. Tubes up to 3 cm long, greyish; pores greyish. Stem 7-20x2-3 cm, white, already black-scaly when young. Characteristic features: grows only under birches; the flesh is white, when broken or cut it becomes violet-pink, purplish-brown, greenish-blue at the base of the stem. Appears in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests, in larger or smaller groups, rarely singly. Edible, very valuable.