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Fungi

Bay bolete

Imleria badia

Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.

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Bay bolete
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Scientific name
Imleria badia
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Boletales
Family
Boletaceae
Under the cap
Pores
Cap
Domed
Stem
Bare
Lives by
Partner of trees
Season
Summer, Autumn
Habitat
Broadleaf forest, Conifer forest
Spore print
Brown, Olive
Difficulty in WildGuessr
Medium

Did you know?

  • After the Chernobyl accident, bay boletes were found to hold much more radioactive caesium than most other fungi.
  • Its genus name Imleria honours the Belgian mycologist Louis Imler.

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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q752497 · All fungi · All entries