Mushrooms Chestnut mushroom

Chestnut fungus belongs to the rather rare, and not everyone lucky enough to find it . Caps 5 - 10 cm in diameter, inyoung specimens hemispherical and finely-velvety, then to cushion disclosed, dry, bare, dark-brown or chestnut-brown . pores initially whitish, later yellowish, sinuous, form a kind of labyrinth . Leg brown, brittle, within a hollow chamber, 5 - 9 cm long and 1.5 - 3 cm thick . The flesh is white . Spores almostcolorless, smooth, in the form of short cylinders, measuring 8 - 10 x 5 - 6 m . Uncommon or even rare and autumn (August - October) usually solitary in deciduous and mixed forests (mainly under oaks) occasionally also in coniferous forests . Edible . Chestnut mushroom quite similar to the edible bolete (Xerocomus badius), but itright, round, small pores, which, like the flesh, slightly turn blue when touched and filled foot .