Bile boletus or boletus?

It is not uncommon for mushroom pickers to end up in the emergency room after enjoying the mushrooms they are looking for. You should therefore always know exactly which mushrooms you are collecting and how you can differentiate between the individual species. Below is a brief summary of how you can distinguish the bile boletus and the boletus.

The bitter bile bolete

• The bile boletus is a fungus that comes from the bolete family. It is inedible. Because it has a very bitter taste, it is often referred to as bitterling.

• You can recognize the bile tube by the following features: It has white tubes that can later turn pink. Its stem is marked by a net and the meat tastes very bitter.

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• You will mainly find the bile boletus on acidic and nutrient-poor soils. It is widespread under conifers but also in deciduous forests.

• Its growth phase is between early summer and autumn. As soon as it gets colder, this fungus stops growing.



Collecting porcini mushrooms - you should pay attention to this

They don't grow on stones as the name might suggest. Porcini mushrooms ...

• Although the mushroom is inedible, it is not poisonous. In most cases, the consumption leads to stomach and intestinal problems.

• Do not confuse this mushroom with the boletus. Unfortunately, that happens far too often.

The popular porcini mushroom

• The boletus belongs to the Dickröhrlingen group. It is an excellent edible mushroom. It is often fried.

• If you find a lot of porcini mushrooms, you can prepare them to dry them and then enjoy porcini mushrooms all year round.

• The name boletus comes from the fact that the flesh of the mushroom is much firmer than that of other mushrooms.

• There are different porcini mushrooms. In Europe you can often find the black-capped boletus, the summer boletus, the common boletus and, of course, the pine boletus.