Red cracking bolete
Xerocomellus chrysenteron
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Xerocomellus chrysenteron
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Boletales
- Family
- Boletaceae
- Under the cap
- Pores
- Cap
- Domed, Flat
- 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 DNA studies it was moved out of the genus Boletus into Xerocomellus, a genus created in 2008.
- Boletes such as this one are sometimes attacked by a parasitic mould that slowly covers them in a powdery coat.
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Similar fungi
- Brown birch bolete
Leccinum scabrum
- Scarletina bolete
Neoboletus luridiformis
- Lurid bolete
Suillellus luridus
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q254161 · All fungi · All entries