Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ BoletalesOrder
• └─ BoletaceaeFamily
• └─ LeccinumGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

Lifestylemycorrhiza

Mycorrhizal with birch in damp birch and mixed woodland, on mossy woodland edges and along paths

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

• edible mushroom

Good edible mushroom

• ▸ Cap hemispherical to cushion-shaped, drier, grey-brown to warm brown, margin often overhanging the tubes
• ▸ Tubes whitish to grey, later brownish-grey; pores round, bruising greyish-brown
• ▸ White stem covered in dense, coarse, dark grey-brown to blackish scabers, crowded at the top; never ringed or netted
• ▸ Firm white flesh that slowly turns pinkish-grey to violet-grey in the stem, especially at the base

A faithful mycorrhizal partner of birch; the cap colour varies greatly — the dark scabers on the white stem are the reliable feature.