Some Other Boletus Species

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By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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The best place to study fungi is in your own particular environment. In the Salentine macchia we find a variety of boleti, including Boletus edulis: some of them have a ‘lurid’ aspect, notably B luridus, B erythropus and B cyanescens, which all turn blue when touched. This alarming colour vanishes in cooki