Edibility:

Good


Eating notes: 

Use as you would a Cep / Porcini 


Preserving: 

Dries easily. 




                        



Description


Cap: 

8-16cm Variable in colour. May be anything from dusty orange to pale bay.


Stem: 

May be swollen (as with a Cep). Lemon yellow near the cap often darker lower down with some reddening.


Tubes: 

Lemon-yellow bruising faintly blue-green


Pores: 

Lemon-yellow. Becoming slightly ochre as the spores mature. 


Spores: 

Walnut brown


Flesh: 

Pale yellow. Bluing slowly and faintly. May blush slightly in the stem base.


Habitat: 

On the ground with Oak.


Frequency: 

Occasional