Other options: Boletus luridiformis, boletus rhodopurpureus. Discounted due to reddish/pinkish colour of cap, and stem not showing any yellow.

Warm, calcareous deciduous woodland, under oaks and beeches

Poisonous — do not eat

• ▸ Pale cream-grey cap with pinkish to rose shades, especially towards the margin
• ▸ Fine pores, yellow when young, soon blood-red
• ▸ Thick, bulbous stem with a fine pink-red network, yellow at the top
• ▸ Flesh turning blue on cutting, especially in the cap

A striking red-pored bolete of warm, lime-rich forest. Like its close relative Satan's Bolete, it is toxic and should only be admired.