Imleria badia
Imleria badia is an edible, pored mushroom found in Europe and North America. The common and scientific names refer to the bay- or chestnut-coloured cap. The smooth, cylindrical stipe, measuring 4–9 cm long by 1–2 cm thick, is coloured like the cap, but paler. The mushroom can bioaccumulate some trace metals from the soil, such as mercury, cobalt, and nickel. specimens collected in Europe following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster contained several times more caesium-137 than those collected before the incident.
About Imleria badia in brief
Imleria badia, commonly known as the bay bolete, is an edible, pored mushroom found in Europe and North America. The common and scientific names refer to the bay- or chestnut-coloured cap, which is almost spherical in young specimens before broadening and flattening out to a diameter up to 15 cm. On the cap underside are small yellowish pores that turn dull blue-grey when bruised. The smooth, cylindrical stipe, measuring 4–9 cm long by 1–2 cm thick, is coloured like the cap, but paler. Some varieties have been described from eastern North America, differing from the main type in both macroscopic and microscopic morphology. The mushroom can bioaccumulate some trace metals from the soil, such as mercury, cobalt, and nickel. specimens collected in Europe following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster contained several times more caesium-137 than those collected before the incident. The taxon name comes from the Latin limatulus, “rather polished” or “refined” The species was first named as Boletus castaneus ß badius by Elias Magnus Fries in 1818. In 1931, Edouard-Jean Gilbert reclassified it in the genus Xerocomus, and many sources still list it thus. Genetic analysis published in 2013 shows that Imleriabadia is related to B.
pallidus and B. glabellus; the three species form a clade known informally as the badius clade within a larger group in the suborder Boletineae. Varieties glaber and macrostipitatus were described from Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1976. The starting date of fungal taxonomy had been set as January 1, 1801, to coincide with the date of the works of Swedish naturalist Elias Fries. Rolf Singer argued that setting the starting date to Christiaan Persoon’s 1801 publication of Synopsis would make a name change necessary, as he had originally given what is now known as Boletus badius Persius the combination of Bo letus glutus Kbhromus and the word badius. If the bay Bolete was classified in BoletUS, the name would be unavailable and the name BoletUs glutus would be used instead. The name is likewise derived from the common adjective, “chestnut”, meaning brown or brown brown, and is likened to the colour of the cap. The species is sold in markets in Europe, central Mexico, and in the U.S. and is less often infested by maggots than other boletes. It is considered a poor relation of the cep, but is nevertheless regarded as a choice edible mushroom by some authors.
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