Warm deciduous and mixed woodland, parks, under oak, beech and linden

Inedible — intensely bitter, considered mildly toxic

• ▸ Pale grey to buff-brown cap
• ▸ Lemon-yellow pores that stain blue rapidly when touched
• ▸ Thick yellow stem with a faint net, tapering into a rooting, often buried base
• ▸ Flesh turning blue on cutting; bitter taste

Despite the bitter, inedible flesh, the large pale caps make it a striking find along warm woodland margins.