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Leccinum Scabrum : Brown Birch Bolete
These sometimes will swell up and remind me of a big chocolate glazed donut. In our location, these tend to get much larger than their cousins the Orange Cap Boletes. Be careful when cooking these as like most Boletes they can be toxic if undercooked. Check the flesh of the mushroom to double check also.
Also See Similar:
Leccinum versipelle / Leccinum aurantiacum
orange birch bolete / orange oak bolete
Kingdom : Fungi
Division : Basidiomycota
Class : Agaricomycetes
Order : Boletales
Family : Boletaceae
Genus : Leccinum
Species : Leccinum scabrum : Brown Birch Bolete
Where to Find This Mushroom in the Wild?
The Brown Birch Bolete *check out Orange Cap Boletes to spot the differences* grows across most deciduous and coniferous forests preferring moist soil conditions and being tucked away in the tall grass. With these Plump and edible mushrooms being mycorrhizal their name is giving which trees will be nearby! Birch trees being most popular but to not exclude other hardwoods. These little rats blend in very well with the dying and decrepit leaf debris on the forest floor.
These little lovelies grow all over our woods and surrounding areas being extrememly common across areas such as Asia, Finland, North America, and New Zealand and Australia! Don't be afraid to work out those legs and squat down to the mushrooms height and get a closer look for these!
Description of the Mushroom
Cap: Convex shape, dull brown coloring that stays consistent throughout most of the cap. becomes a bit flatter as it gets older too. Cap typcially gets picked away at by small insects way more often than what we've seen with the orange cap birch and oak boletes. Hard to peel top layer off.
Stem / Stipe: Thinner stipe narrowing towards the cap of the mushroom. Will have flakey scales that are darker in color. Can be referred to as rough stemmed bolete too. Inside is white as is too the flesh of the Brown Birch Bolete.
Pores: Pore surface is light tan to yellowish in color. Pores lead to tube layers to the white flesh. Easily removable from the flesh of the cap and the stipe is easily detachable. Maggots love to infest these and other Leccinum species!
Hymenium: adnate
Spore Print: Spore Print is Olive in color
Ecology: grows across most deciduous and coniferous forests preferring moist soil conditions and being tucked away in the tall grass. With these gorgeous edibles being mycorrhizal their name is giving which trees will be nearby! Oak trees and Birch trees being most popular but to not exclude other hardwoods.
Edibility: Edible (remove pores from flesh as usually it may be crawling with critters) remove discolored flesh
Edibility / Recipes
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