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The oak mushroom, often called poddubnik, as the name implies, grows in deciduous forests, mainly in oak groves. You can learn how an oak mushroom looks like by remembering everyone's favorite boletus. In many ways, these gifts of the forest are similar in appearance, but of course there are a number of differences.

On this page you can familiarize yourself with the photo and description of the oak mushroom, learn about the halo of its distribution and use. You will also receive information about the most common types of oak trees: common and speckled.

What does an ordinary oak tree look like: photo of an edible mushroom

Category: edible.

Common oak's hat (Boletus luridus) (diameter 6-22 cm): from brown to light olive, in older mushrooms may darken to black-brown. Dark spots sometimes remain when pressed. Usually it has the shape of a hemisphere, sometimes it can be practically spread. Velvety to the touch, sticky and slippery in wet weather or after rain.

Pay attention to the leg of the common oak tree: its height is 5-17 cm, most often it is red, dark orange or brown, at the very base there may be small greenish spots. It has the shape of a club, a characteristic tuberous thickening and a net pattern along the entire length. Tubular layer: with round and very small red pores, which turn blue with slight pressure.

Pulp: yellow, on the cut and when interacting with air turns blue. Has no pronounced taste and smell.

Doubles: absent.

When it grows: from late May to early September in the Caucasus, Siberia and the Far East. Although it is a thermophilic mushroom, it can also be found in the Leningrad Region.

Application in traditional medicine: is not used, but scientists have learned how to extract the antibiotic bolethol from an ordinary oak tree.

Important! Eating common oak tree at the same time as alcohol can lead to gastrointestinal problems.

Where can I find: on limestone soils next to birches and oaks in well-heated and sunny areas of the forest.

Eating: in dried or pickled form, subject to preliminary soaking and boiling, and the water must be drained several times. Although the concentration of toxic substances in an ordinary oak tree is very low, and moreover, they are destroyed during cooking, a short heat treatment can lead to a severe eating disorder. If you add a little citric acid to the jar during pickling, the mushroom will retain the light color of the flesh and will not change it to lilac or purple.

Other names: oak wood olive-brown, poddubnik, dirty-brown oak.

Edible mushroom speckled oak tree and its photo

Category: conditionally edible.

Edible speckled oak tree (Boletus erythropus) hat (diameter 7-22 cm): dark brown, chestnut, black-brown, darkens noticeably even with slight pressure. Has the shape of a hemisphere or cushion. Velvety to the touch.

Leg (height 7-16 cm): usually reddish yellow, often with dots or mesh patterns. Thick, cylindrical or barrel-shaped, tapering from bottom to top.

Tubular layer: with rounded yellow or orange tubes. Darkens noticeably when pressed.

Particularly noteworthy is the pulp of speckled oak wood: the photo shows that it is bright yellow or orange, changes color on the cut and when interacting with air to bluish or blue. Has no pronounced taste and aroma.

Doubles: poisonous satanic mushroom (Boletus satanas), the pulp of which on the cut first turns red, and only then turns blue. The yellow boletus (Boletus junquilleus), which grows only in Western Europe and has a yellow leg.The very rare Kele oak tree (Boletus queletii), like the olive-brown oak tree (Boletus luridus), grows exclusively on calcareous soils.

When it grows: from mid-May to early October in the Caucasus, Eastern Siberia, the Far East and the European part of Russia. It is ubiquitous in the Leningrad region.

Where can I find: on acidic or marshy soils of deciduous and coniferous forests, most often in the vicinity of spruce, oak and fir.

Eating: in pickled form, subject to preliminary boiling for 10-15 minutes, can also be dried.

Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.

Other names: boletus poddubovikovy, oak wood-footed boletus, boletus granny-footed, red-footed boletus, bruise.