Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ BoletalesOrder
• └─ BoletaceaeFamily
• └─ RubroboletusGenus

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

Lifestylemycorrhiza

Conservation statusnear threatened

Warm, calcareous deciduous woodland, under oaks and beeches

⚠ 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

• poisonous mushroom

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.