– Cap grayish-yellow to yellow-brown.
– Tubes yellow, do not turn blue when bruised.
– Stem without a reticulate network, granular at the top, sometimes with red hues towards the base.
– Flesh smells like iodoform, resembling "band-aids", especially at the base of the stem.
Xerocomoid boletes
Iodine Bolete
Hemileccinum impolitum
NT
Near threatened
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak in deciduous forests and parks, often on calcareous and clayey soils.
Notes
Sometimes reported as edible but is so rare that it is not recommended for picking.
Similar species
Hemileccinum depilatum is similar but has a lumpy "hammered" cap surface.
Butyriboletus fechtneri differs in having bluing tubes, a reticulate network on the stem and a more grayish cap.
Butyriboletus appendiculatus has a yellow stem with a yellow reticulate network.
Butyriboletus fechtneri differs in having bluing tubes, a reticulate network on the stem and a more grayish cap.
Butyriboletus appendiculatus has a yellow stem with a yellow reticulate network.
