Red Cracking Bolete in Saarland: the week ahead

Xerocomellus chrysenteron

The map below is built from the measurement network. A 2.5 km grid with a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

Today

Red Cracking Bolete
Starting

confidence 49%

Flush phase

  1. Quiet
  2. Starting
  3. Building
  4. Peak
  5. Fading

Updated 17 September 2026, 11:22 BST

7 days

Index, day by day

Week's best 26on Thursdayaverage 23by the weekend falling

Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».

  1. Today2617 Sept
  2. Fri2418 Sept
  3. Sat2419 Sept
  4. Sun2320 Sept
  5. Mon2221 Sept
  6. Tue2222 Sept
  7. Wed2123 Sept

Map

Where to look: red cracking bolete

A field over the measurement network. The colour here is for the leading species at each point, not for this one; a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

About the species. Edible when correctly identified and cooked. The pores and flesh can bruise blue-green. Older fruitbodies become soft quickly and are best left.

Red Cracking Bolete in Saarland: where to look

Red Cracking Bolete — botanical illustration

Red Cracking Bolete: the species in brief

How to tell it

A small bolete with a dry, velvety olive-brown cap. As the cap expands it often cracks, revealing pinkish or reddish flesh beneath. The pores are yellow and bruise blue-green.

Where it grows

In broadleaved and mixed woodland, on mossy banks, woodland edges and beside tracks.

In the kitchen

Best used young. It can be fried or added to mixed mushroom dishes but is softer and less strongly flavoured than Penny Bun.

Nutrition

Low in calories.

This is a note about the species, not about what is in your basket. Full card with lookalikes →

What else is out here now

The other species in this region, by today's index.

Red Cracking Bolete in neighbouring regions

A regional boundary means nothing to a mushroom, and the next region is sometimes closer than the far side of your own. The index is for today.