Goatman goby – goat mushroom, Cossack boletus, goat, koziar, kozak, i live, runs, a koźlarek, black goatman, bay bolete, Czeszczewik, sub-landing site, breezes, birch mushroom, birch tree, Birch tree, Jewess, stand
secondary value mushroom. It has a hat with a diameter of 5…20 cm, from light hazel to dark brown, dry, mat, smooth or sometimes finely villous. The skin does not separate from the flesh. Tubes initially long, whitish, then gray-brown. Slender stem, fibrous, light brownish, covered with numerous, dark brown or black scales. White or white-gray flesh, does not change color after cutting, in older specimens, it is fibrous and somewhat reminiscent of the structure of wood. Smell and taste weak. Yellowish brownish spore discharge.
It grows in forests, groves, thickets, sometimes also in parks, always under the birches. Harvested from June to October. Hornbeam goats are known (in oak-hornbeam and lime-hornbeam forests), lighter and darker, and whitish goats, growing in swampy places, on peat bogs, under the birches.