Wood flywheel (Buchwaldoboletus lignicola)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Boletales
- Family: Boletaceae
- Genus: Buchwaldoboletus
- Species: Buchwaldoboletus lignicola (Wood flywheel)
Scientific synonyms:
- Boletus lignicola Kallenb
- Xerocomus lignicola
- Pulveroboletus lignicola
The cap is 2-8 cm in diameter, hemispherical, rounded-convex, smooth, red-brown. The skin cannot be removed.
Stem 3-10 cm high, 1-2.7 cm thick, cylindrical, often curved, solid, one-color with a cap or lighter, yellow at the base. The pulp is dense, yellow, without a special smell.
Stem 3-10 cm high, 1-2.7 cm thick, cylindrical, often curved, solid, one-color with a cap or lighter, yellow at the base.
The pulp is dense, yellow, without a special smell.
The hymenophore is descending, consists of tubules 0.5-1 cm long, reddish brown or rusty brown. The pores of the tubules are large, angular.
Spores (8.5-9.5) (2.5-3.1) microns, fusiform-ellipsoidal, smooth, yellow-olive. Spore powder olive.
The wood flywheel grows on wood – stumps, at the base of trunks and on rock sawdust, in July-September. In Europe and North America. not marked in Russia.
Similar to the semi-golden moss (Xerocomus hemichrysus), but in color it is not yellow, but red-brown.
Inedible.
