– Cap grayish-white to brown-gray, often cracking when old.
– Tubes and pores yellow, bruising blue when injured.
– Stem yellow, sometimes with a reddish zone, with a yellowish reticulate network, often radially tapered towards the base.
– Flesh pale yellow, bruising blue when cut.
– Taste more or less bitter.
Boletoid boletes
Rooting Bolete
Caloboletus radicans
NT
Near threatened
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak and beech in deciduous forests and parks, often on calcareous and clayey soils.
Notes
Inedible due to its bitter taste.
Similar species
The bitter taste, combined with the radially tapered stem base, serves as good field characters separating it from similar boletes.
