Hollow foot tubers
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The hollow foot boletus ( Boletinus ), also called scaly boletus , are an obsolete genus from the family of the thick bolete relatives (Boletaceae). In the meantime they are counted among the smeared tubers ( Suillus ). In Central Europe there is only one type of the earlier hollow foot bolete, the hollow foot bolete ( Suillus cavipes ).
features
The hollow foot boletus are smaller to medium thick bolete relatives, usually remaining long hemispherical and with a blunt and low hump on their hat. The hats are yellow, gold, dark to reddish brown, initially felty and soon tear open in scales. The tubes are yellow, then greenish-yellow, relatively short and difficult to separate from the hat meat. The flesh is pale yellow, invariable when broken and has a neutral taste.
Occurrence
The hollow foot tubers are mostly bound to larches ( mycorrhizal partners ). They grow on acidic soils from July to October. Very often found in mountain areas (Valais), not infrequently in association with the gray larch boletus and the golden bolete.
determination
The hollow foot tubers can be identified very well by their small size, their wide-meshed pores and their location ( larches ).
Usability
The hollow foot boletus are edible, but not very productive. But they are ideal as a filling mushroom in a mixed mushroom dish, as well as to dry or as an insert in a mushroom salad.
Important species
- Hollow foot bolete ( Suillus cavipes )
- Asiatic common boletus ( Boletinus asiaticus )
literature
- Helmut and Renate Grünert: Pilze , Mosaik-Verlag, (1988)
- M. Moser: Small cryptogam flora. The boletus and agaric mushrooms , Gustav Fischer, (1983)
