Purple Boletus (Boletus purpureus)
- Vaega: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Vaevaega: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega laiti: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Poloaiga: Boletales (Boletales)
- Aiga: Boletaceae (Boletaceae)
- Genus: Boletus
- ituaiga: Boletus purpureus (Purple Boletus (Purple Boletus))
Photo by: Felice Di Palma
faamatalaga:
The hat is 5 to 20 cm in diameter, spherical, then convex, the edges are slightly wavy. The skin is velvety, dry, in wet weather slightly mucous, slightly tuberculate. It is unevenly colored: on a grayish or olive-gray background, red-brown, reddish, wine or pink zones, covered with dark blue spots when pressed. Often eaten by insects, yellow flesh is visible in places of damage.
The tubular layer is lemon-yellow, then greenish-yellow, the pores are small, blood-red or orange-red, dark blue when pressed.
Spore powder olive or olive brown, spore size 10.5-13.5 * 4-5.5 microns.
Leg 6-15 cm high, 2-7 cm in diameter, first tuberous, then cylindrical with club-shaped thickening. The color is lemon-yellow with a dense reddish mesh, blackish-blue when pressed.
The flesh is firm at a young age, lemon-yellow, when damaged, it instantly becomes black-blue, then after a long time it acquires a wine hue. The taste is sweetish, the smell is sour-fruity, weak.
Faʻasalalau:
The fungus is quite rare. Distributed in Our Country, in our country, in European countries, mainly in places with a warm climate. Prefers calcareous soils, more often lives in hilly and mountainous areas. It is found in broad-leaved and mixed forests next to beeches and oaks. Fruits in June-September.
Le tutusa:
It looks like edible oaks Boletus luridus, Boletus erythropus, as well as the satanic mushroom (Boletus satanas), inedible bitter beautiful boletus (Boletus calopus), pink-skinned boletus (Boletus rhodoxanthus) and some other bolets with a similar color.
Iloiloga:
Poisonous when raw or undercooked. In Western literature, it is positioned as inedible or poisonous. Due to the rarity, it is better not to collect.