Porcini
Boletus edulis · 美味牛肝菌
Common牛肝菌科🍽 Reported Edible (Wild)
Reference sources describe this as an edible wild fungus. This guide provides no basis whatsoever for foraging or consumption.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap brown, margin slightly paler, like a baked loaf
- Stem stout, with fine white netting on the upper part
- Pores white, aging to yellow-green; flesh does not change color when cut
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 牛肝菌科
- Hymenium
- Pores
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 8–25 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Ground in pine and oak woods
Easily Confused With
Bitter boleteCap brown; stem coarsely netted with dark brown
Satan's boletePorcini's pores go white to yellow-green, its stem is white-brown with a net and it doesn't blue; Satan's bolete has red pores.Fun Fact
The fine white netting on its stem is porcini's ID card; the bitter bolete's netting is coarse and dark, and one bite of it is bitter enough to ruin an entire pot of soup.