June to October
Hortiboletus rubellus
Hortiboletus rubellus
Certain identification required before any consumption
- Raw
- Raw consumption not documented
- Cooking
- Cooking recommended, minimum time not established
- Review
- Certain identification required before any consumption
- Instruction
- The Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office advises against eating wild mushrooms raw. Have this harvest checked by an expert and cook it thoroughly; no species-specific cooking requirement is established here.
A small red bolete of parks and open woods, with yellow pores, a red stem without a network and orange-red dots in the flesh at the very base.
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Guide contents
Guide contents
Season
Indicative period: June to October.
Habitat
Parks, gardens, tree-lined lawns, path edges and broadleaf woodland, especially near oaks.
Method
Check several visible features before retaining a species name.
Three features to check on the specimen.
Cap
Convex to flattened, bright red, sometimes fading in patches.
Pores
Yellow, small to medium pores that become more angular and turn faintly blue.
Stem and flesh
Slender stem, yellow at the top and red over much of its length, dotted or fibrillose without a network. Pale yellow flesh turning slightly blue above the tubes, with orange-red dots at the very base of the stem.
Examine the specimen in this order.
- Examine the underside and the stem all the way to its base.
- Compare the flesh reaction only on a section already needed for examination.
- Keep the host tree and habitat as supporting evidence.
Features incompatible with this species.
- Xerocomellus chrysenteron, with a brown cap cracked to reveal pink.
- Hortiboletus engelii, with less distinctly red colours.
- Xerocomellus pruinatus, with a brown, finely frosted cap.
