The red carpenter – red mushroom, red boletus, red bruise, share, osowiak, aspen, the Osinians, podsini, podosinnik, podosowik, double, birch, redhead, red head, sour soup, shank, putting
secondary value mushroom. It has a hat with a diameter of 4…15 cm, almost spherical at first, then hemispherical, convex, finally more flattened, red-orange, orange-brownish, dark red, older specimens may be discolored, paler. Tubes length 1…3 cm, whitish at first, then greyish with an olive tinge, staining brown-violet when damaged. Minor pores, round, the color of the tubes. Stem thickened in youth, then cylindrical, a little thinner above, length 5…15 cm, white or off-white, covered with scales: first white-gray, then rusty, chestnut brown or gray-brown.
White flesh, Violet or turning brown-red on the cross-section, green-blue at the base of the stem. Pleasant taste, mild, no smell. Spore discharge brown or olive brownish. It grows in forests, thickets, most often under aspen. Pretty common. Harvested in summer and autumn, from July to October. So far in Poland, it has been rarely distinguished from the orange-yellow goat.