– Cap convex to expanded, smooth, white to dirty white, often with a blue-green tone when older.
– Tubes white to dirty white, often with brown-yellow spots.
– Stem white, with white to ochre-grey scabers/floccules.
– Flesh soft, white, often with blue-green spots in the stem base.
Leccinoid boletes
Ghost Bolete
Leccinum holopus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Forms mycorrhiza with birch in swamp birch forest, mixed forest, fen margins and lake shores. Often on moist ground among Sphagnum.
Similar species
The white cap when young is typical of Leccinum holopus, but it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from white forms of other Leccinum species.
