Brown boletus – fawn mushroom, brown boletus, chestnut mushroom, winter, French, black girl, mushroom, mushroom, bruise
secondary value mushroom. It has a hat with a diameter of 6…16 cm, with a chocolate-brown color, with an area of young suede specimens, matte, in the elderly – in dry weather - smooth and shiny, during the rainfall – sticky. Tubes yellowish at first, later olive, after breaking the bruise. Tubes color pores, minor, round or angular, when you touch it. Light brown shaft, lighter at the top and base, yellowish, mossy on the surface, fibrous, longitudinally brindle, in the elderly – smooth, linear, cylindrical or sometimes thickened, as in porcini mushrooms. Whitish flesh, slightly bruising after breaking, especially near the tubes. Olive brown spore rash.
It occurs on the ground, less often at the base of trunks and stumps, most often in pine forests, also in mixed forests. Very common. Harvested in summer and autumn, from mid-June to the end of October.
Poisonous in its raw state! Edible after scalding with boiling water.