Sardinia Index Mushrooms and Boletus aereus Mycological Notes
Mycological Kind: Boletus aereus Bulliard, (1789).
Black bolete - Photo FonteSarda 2003
Hat: 6-25 cms. of form as half sphere, convex slightly flattened finally.
Cuticle with varying colors from the brown clear actually to the brown dark color, more velvety surface.
It has an it slightly irregular hems.
Fertile part: short tubules in the samples young, color from the white cream actually to the clear olive yellow.
Pore small, color white cream then as the tubules they become yellow olive.
Stem: 6-15 cms. diameter 3-8 cms. very hard, often paunchy,
it has an thin net-like in relief with tonality on the chamois, clear then rust color base of the stem.
Meat: compact then soft, unchangeable to the cut, white with odor persistent of mushroom.
Habitat: under trees from the wide leaves, Quercus Ilex (Holm-oak),
chestnut tree or Arbutus (strawberry tree).
Period: first autumn.
Notes: surely among the mushrooms more appreciated in Sardinia, but not only.
Known also as black or bronzes Boletus from which derives the etymology of the name
aereus = bronzy.
Edibility: Edible, excellent
Kingdom: Fungi (Mushrooms);
Division or Phylum: Basidiomycota;
Class: Basidiomycetes;
Sub-class: Agaricomycetidae;
Order: Boletales;
Family: Boletaceae;
Kind: Boletus;
Section: Edules.
Synonymy:
Boletus edulis f. aereus (Bulliard) Vassilkov, (1955);
Boletus edulis f. aereus (Bulliard) Vassilkov, (1966);
Tubiporus edulis subsp. aereus (Bulliard) Maire, (1937).
FonteSarda - Last Updating:
2012-04-30
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