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The boletus mushroom is usually placed in an honorable third place in taste after boletus and boletus. If a boletus grows next to an aspen, its cap will usually be a deep dark red. However, these gifts of the forest also live under other trees. If you do not know what a boletus mushroom looks like, growing next to a poplar, then you may not recognize it - its cap is faded, not much like the usual dark red.

On this page you will learn about the boletus species, their counterparts, their use in cooking and traditional medicine. You can also get information about where the boletus grows, whose neighborhood it prefers, and see a photo and description of what the boletus looks like.

Common boletus and its photo

Category: edible.

Cap of the common boletus (Leccinum aurantiacum) (5-28 cm in diameter): brown with shades of red or orange. It has the shape of a hemisphere and can be easily separated from the leg. The peel is removed with difficulty and only with pieces of pulp.

Leg (height 4-18 cm): solid gray or off-white. The photo and description of the leg of the boletus is similar to the leg of the oak boletus - the same fibrous scales are located on it, which eventually become almost black.

Tubular layer: loose, white, yellowish or olive in color. Old or wormy mushrooms have a dirty gray or brownish color.

Pulp: fleshy and dense, elastic in a young mushroom, and soft and loose in an old one. On the cut, it is immediately white, after a few minutes it becomes bluish, and later turns black. It does not have a distinct aroma.

Doubles: edible yellow-brown boletus (Leccinum versipelle) and colored-footed boletus (Tylopilus chromapes). The yellow-brown has a lighter cap and flesh, which first turns pink, then turns blue on the cut, and the colored-legged has a yellowish leg.

When it grows: from early June to mid-October in many countries of Eurasia, the Caucasus, the Far East, the Urals and Western Siberia.

Where can I find: in deciduous and mixed forests. Prefers proximity to aspens, willows, birches, oaks and poplars. Never grows next to conifers. Occasionally it can be found in the glades, not far from the aspen forests.

Eating: in almost any form, only when frying, drying and boiling it darkens strongly.

Application in traditional medicine (data not confirmed and not passed clinical trials!): in tincture form, it is an excellent blood and skin cleanser and is considered effective against acne.

Other names: krasnik, krasyuk, red mushroom, redhead, aspen.

Depending on the time of its appearance, the people call the common boletus "spikelet" (if it is an early mushroom), "stubble" (as the later boletus is called), and closes the season with "deciduous".

What does an oak boletus mushroom look like?

Category: edible.

Cap of oak boletus (Leccinum quercinum) (diameter 6-16 cm): chestnut, brown or slightly orange, in the form of a hemisphere or a swollen pad.

Leg (height 8-15 cm): brown or brown, often with small scales. Cylindrical, slightly thickened at the base.

Tubular layer: brown, with very fine pores.

Pulp: very dense, white, with brown or grayish spots. At the cut site and when interacting with air, it turns black.

Doubles: absent.

When it grows: from the beginning of August to the end of September in the countries of the northern temperate zone.

Where can I find: most often in oak forests.

Eating: delicious in almost any form.

Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.

Other names: oak redhead, oak curb.

Description of yellow-brown boletus

Category: edible.

A photo and description of a boletus mushroom of this species differs from others in the brightness of the cap. Its diameter is 4-17 cm, most often the cap is yellow-brownish, brownish or orange. In young Leccinum versipelle it has the shape of a hemisphere, in the rest it resembles a swollen pillow. Feels dry and never sticky or slippery.

Leg (height 6-25 cm): grayish, with small scales along the entire length, tapering from bottom to top.

Tubular layer: with small pores of gray or olive color.

Pulp: very dense, immediately white at the site of a cut or fracture, gradually changing to greenish in the stem, slightly pink in the cap, and then blue-violet in both parts.

Doubles: boletus relatives, differ in the shades of the cap and the size of the leg or cap.

When it grows: from mid-June to early November in northern Europe and the Far East.

Where can I find: on damp soils of all types of forests, especially in the vicinity of pines and birches.

Eating: delicious mushroom in any form.

Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.

Other names: red-brown boletus, different-skinned boletus.