Cornflower Bolete

Gyroporus cyanescens

Sandy coniferous and deciduous forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large, fleshy. Cap 8-10 cm across, but also grows much larger (up to 15 cm), matt, whitish, cream. Tubes and pores whitish, later yellowish. Stem 5—10x2—3 cm, white, when old hollow. Flesh white, turning blue quickly and very vividly when cut or broken. Characteristic features: cap, tubes, flesh and stem turn blue instantly at the slightest touch. Grows most often singly or a few fruiting bodies together, in dry coniferous and deciduous forests, likes the company of pine. Edible, not rare.