– Cap convex, orange-brown to reddish brown, smooth to minutely scaly.
– Cap cuticle overhanging, i.e. extending a few mm beyond the cap margin.
– Tubes dirty white, becoming somewhat darker grey-brown after handling.
– Stem white, stout, with brown to blackish brown scabers.
– Flesh white, reddening weakly and then turning grey-black to grey-violet, often with blue-green patches in the stem base.
Leccinoid boletes
Foxy Bolete
Leccinum vulpinum
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Forms mycorrhiza with pine and spruce in coniferous forest, especially pine heath and sandy pine forest, but also mixed coniferous forest and spruce forest.
Notes
Records with spruce were previously treated under the name Leccinum piceinum, but this is now regarded as a synonym of L. vulpinum.
Similar species
Leccinum aurantiacum s.lat. and Leccinum versipelle can be similar, but they grow with deciduous trees.
