Boletus aereus, the dark cep or bronze bolete, is a highly prized and much sought-after edible mushroom in the family Boletaceae. Described in 1789 by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard, it is closely related to several other European boletes. The bolete is widely consumed in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and generally throughout the Mediterranean. The fruit body has a large dark brown cap, which can reach 30 cm in diameter.
About Boletus aereus in brief
Boletus aereus, the dark cep or bronze bolete, is a highly prized and much sought-after edible mushroom in the family Boletaceae. Described in 1789 by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard, it is closely related to several other European boletes. The bolete is widely consumed in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and generally throughout the Mediterranean. Some populations in North Africa have in the past been classified as a separate species, B. mamorensis, but have been shown to be phylogenetically conspecific to B. aereus. The fungus predominantly grows in habitats with broad-leaved trees and shrubs, forming symbiotic ectomycorrhizal associations in which the underground roots of these plants are enveloped with sheaths of fungal tissue. The pore surface of the fruit body is whitish when young, but ages to a greenish-yellow. The fruit body has a large dark brown cap, which can reach 30 cm in diameter.
Like other boletes, it has tubes extending downward from the underside of the cap, rather than gills; spores escape at maturity through the tube openings, or pores. The species epithet is the Latin adjective aerěus, meaning \”made with bronze or copper\”. In 1940, Manuel Cabral de Rezende-Pinto published the variety Boletus var. squarrosus from collections made in Brazil, but this taxon is not considered to be taxonomically distinct. A genetic study found that B reticulatus, B pinophilus, and B edulis were sister to four European species of bolete. The study also found that the bolete was a sister to a section of the boletus section B reticula, and that it was sister to the section Porcini, and a section B. regineus. It was formally established in California in 2008, and formally established as a different species, Bo letus aletus Fr., in a taxonomic revision of western North American porcini.
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