– Cap convex, grayish-yellow to light brown, matt, often cracked.
– Tubes and pores initially whitish, becoming yellow to yellow-green with age.
– Stem white to gray-brown, usually stout, sometimes slender, with a white reticulate network.
– Flesh white, even just under the cap cuticle.
– Taste mild.
Boletoid boletes
Summer Bolete
Boletus reticulatus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak and beech in broafleaf forests.
Notes
A good edible mushroom. Often appears as early as June-July.
Similar species
Tylopilus felleus has a dark network on the stem and a bitter taste, inedible but not toxic.
Boletus edulis has brownish-purple flesh just under the cap cuticle, edible.
B. pinophilus has a darker reddish-brown cap, grows with pine, edible.
Imleria badia lacks a network on the stem and the pores turns blue when touched, edible.
Boletus edulis has brownish-purple flesh just under the cap cuticle, edible.
B. pinophilus has a darker reddish-brown cap, grows with pine, edible.
Imleria badia lacks a network on the stem and the pores turns blue when touched, edible.
