Pine bolete
Boletus pinophilus
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Boletus pinophilus
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Boletales
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Under the cap
- Pores
- Cap
- Domed
- Stem
- Bare
- Lives by
- Partner of trees
- Season
- Summer, Autumn
- Habitat
- Conifer forest
- Spore print
- Brown, Olive
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its name pinophilus means 'pine-loving', yet it also partners with spruce and some broadleaf trees.
- Slugs, insect larvae and small mammals feed on its fruit bodies, so it is part of the forest food web.
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Similar fungi
- Lurid bolete
Suillellus luridus
- Orange birch bolete
Leccinum versipelle
- Brown birch bolete
Leccinum scabrum
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q1415435 · All fungi · All entries