Rooting Bolete

Boletus radicans

Parks, deciduous forests, especially calcareous oak woods with hornbeam and lime. Summer, more rarely autumn.

Fruiting bodies large, fleshy. Cap grows up to 25 cm across, grey, yellowish-brownish, yellowish-grey. Tubes dirty yellowish, pores grey, yellow, turning blue when pressed. Stem swollen in the middle to 8 cm thick, tapering like a root at the base, with a brownish net. Flesh yellow, turning blue when broken, bitter-tasting.

Characteristic features: pores grey, yellow, stem bulging in the middle, tapering at the base, ending in a rhizoid.

Grows singly in deciduous forests, especially in calcareous, clayey oak woods. Inedible because of its bitter taste. Rarely found. Protected.