- Cap convex, grey-brown to grey-black, often with paler patches, sticky in wet weather.
- Tubes white, faintly reddening when touched and in cut surfaces.
- Stem white, with grey-brown to grey-black scabers, often with blue-green tones towards the base.
- Flesh white, reddening in cut surfaces, with a distinct blue-green discolouration in the stem base.
Leccinoid boletes
Mottled Bolete
Leccinum variicolor
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Forms mycorrhiza with birch in wet birch woodland, mixed forest and wooded mires on damp ground.
Notes
Edible, but use young and firm specimens, as Leccinum species often become soft and spongy with age.
Similar species
Typical features of the species are the paler patches on the otherwise dark grey to black-grey cap, combined with the reddish colour change of the flesh in cut surfaces and the blue-green tones in the stem base.
