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Golden Bolete
Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus
Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It is native to Europe, North America and Southwest Australia.
From the article Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The cap is convex, glabrous, silky and tomentose, viscid when wet. Its color is yellow to yellow-fulvus. It reaches 5–15 centimetres (2–6 in) wide. The pores are small, tubes short, and adnate ventricose. The context is yellow, bluing when bruised. The stipe is fleshy, ventricose, and there is a yellow mycelium at the stipe base; it reaches 3–12 cm (1+1⁄4–4+3⁄4 in) tall and 2–5 cm (3⁄4–2 in) wide. Spores are ovoid, pale ochraceous and measure 5.5–7.2 by 3.3–4.5 μm. The spore print is brown.
Range & habitat
Buchwaldoboletus sphaerocephalus has been recorded in Europe, North America (from August to October) and Southwest Australia, growing in clusters on sawdust of pines, often in enclosed areas.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 363581.