Edibility:

Good


Eating notes: 

Slice thinly before drying ( as with most large mushrooms)


Preserving: 

Can be dried. 




                        



Description


Cap: 

8-20cm orange slightly flety or scaley. Can has a slight overhanging margin


Stem: 

Off white and tall with small balck scales


Tubes: 

pale grey to ochre. Adnex 


Pores: 

Grey to ochre


Spores: 

Walnut brown


Flesh: 

White and firm. Slowly turns wine coloured and eventually black on cutting.


Habitat: 

On the ground with Birch trees


Frequency: 

Common