Mature specimen

Mycorrhizal with spruce, pine, beech and oak

Excellent edible mushroom

• ▸ Brown cap, greasy when damp, paler margin
• ▸ Firm white flesh that never stains blue
• ▸ Young: white pores that turn olive-yellow with age
• ▸ Thick pale stem with a fine white network (reticulum)

The celebrated 'stone mushroom' of central Europe and one of the most sought-after edible fungi; its nutty flavour intensifies when dried.