Red capped scaber stalk
Leccinum aurantiacum
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Leccinum aurantiacum
- 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
- Spore print
- Brown, Olive
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- It often grows under aspen and poplar, and its Latin name aurantiacum means 'orange-coloured'.
- Scientists have been splitting what was once seen as one species into several close look-alikes.
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Similar fungi
- Bitter bolete
Tylopilus felleus
- Brown birch bolete
Leccinum scabrum
- Satans bolete
Rubroboletus satanas
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q4329061 · All fungi · All entries