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Boletus calopus Pers., 1801 (Bitter Beech Bolete)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Boletus calopus Fruitbody 1 October 1979 Surrey England 6
Boletus calopus Fruitbody 18 August 1978 East Perthshire Scotland 4

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Wright, M., 2000, Boletus calopus, Field Mycology, Volume 1, Part 1: 35 (Colour photograph) Boletus calopus

Boletus calopus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
BOLETALES
(spongecap taodstools and their relatives)
BOLETACEAE
(sponge cap toadstools)
Boletus
(a genus of boletes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Boletus calopus is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acidic soil]
Photos fruitbody Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acidic soil]
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acidic soil]
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acidic soil]
Photos fruitbody Picea abies - Norway Spruce, Christmas Tree (Pinaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acidic soil]

Associated with Boletus calopus:

Boletus calopus may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
Boletus
(a genus of boletes)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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