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-Boletus Satanas- Satan's Bolete |
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Poisonous.
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Cap
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Pale grey with olive, brownish spots; margins can be pinkish especially in
age. 10-25 (30) cm in diameter, at first hemispheric later becoming convex.
Surface glabrous or finely tomentose, areolate during dry weather and
subviscid when moistened; margin acute, undulating. Pores : At first yellow, soon red, paler orange-yellow to cap margin; turn blue when bruised. Tubes yellow, bruising blue when exposed, in age olive; cap context above tubes yellow; depressed at stipe; 10-30 mm long. Stipe : Bulbous, 10-12 x 5-10 cm; upper part yellow, toward base carmine-red, sometimes only at the base red; upper part with yellowish to red reticulation. |
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Habitat
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Fall - early winter, solitary or gregarious in warm places, under beech and oaks, on calcareous soils.
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