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Catalog #: MUOB 253464

Observer: Igor

Number: MUOB 253464

Date: 2016-09-15

Verbatim Date: 2016-9-15

Locality: Kazakhstan, Akmola District, Borovoye National Park

53.0291  70.1746

Elevation: 442-442 meters (1450-1450ft)

Description: Original observation #253464 (Mushroom Observer)

Notes: Leccinum duriusculum (Schulzer ex Kalchbr.) Singer, Boletaceae, Agaricales. (Local name: ПодберÑ'зовик жестковатый) Cap: 5-12cm convex up to broadly convex, smooth; dark brown or chocolate brown. Odour is fragrant. Flesh is white and not bitter also fresh. Tubes: attached when young, colour whitish up to pale yellowish-brown with a ring depression under a cap around stalk when old, not bitter. Stalk: 8-15cm long with tiny projections as darker dots, light grey or brownish-gray up to dull brown and yellowish-brown with black dots, minor dark grey when old and drying up; 1.5-3.5cm thick, enlarged down, often up to almost bulbous base; old one is fibrous and stiff. Habitat: small groups or single scattered near birches inside pine-tree forest, sometimes on hummocks in wet boggy mixed forest. Edibility: good (several methods of cooking). June - September.

Record ID: 5ef11a2d-bfa8-4dc4-87cf-4831954f8366

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