Mushrooms · Plate III

Penny bun

Boletus edulis

A chestnut-brown cap, domed like a bun, with a paler edge. Underneath it has no gills but a sponge of tiny tubes, the pores, which turn from white to yellow to olive green with age.

The stem is thick and barrel-shaped, cream-coloured, with a fine white net at the top. It lives joined to the roots of beeches, oaks, sweet chestnuts and pines, and appears from late summer into autumn.

Its name comes from the Latin boletus, in turn linked to a Greek word meaning “clod of earth”. In English it is also called cep or porcini, and penny bun, after its shape.

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