{"id":29330,"date":"2021-11-25T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/?p=29330"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:34:02","slug":"identify-orange-birch-boletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Birch Bolete (Leccinum versipelle) -Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Orange Birch Bolete \/ Summer \/ Autumn \/ Edible<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-29330 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/spinus-orange-birch-bolete-2014-10-n014756-w\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Spinus-orange-birch-bolete-2014-10-n014756-w-300x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Spinus-orange-birch-bolete-2014-10-n014756-w-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Spinus-orange-birch-bolete-2014-10-n014756-w-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Spinus-orange-birch-bolete-2014-10-n014756-w-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Spinus-orange-birch-bolete-2014-10-n014756-w.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29353'>\n\t\t\t\tSpinus Nature Photography (Spinusnet), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/450px-ruhland_grenzstr-_wald_zur_autobahn_an_der_energieschneise_birken-rotkappe_herbst_05\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/450px-Ruhland_Grenzstr._Wald_zur_Autobahn_an_der_Energieschneise_Birken-Rotkappe_Herbst_05-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/450px-Ruhland_Grenzstr._Wald_zur_Autobahn_an_der_Energieschneise_Birken-Rotkappe_Herbst_05-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/450px-Ruhland_Grenzstr._Wald_zur_Autobahn_an_der_Energieschneise_Birken-Rotkappe_Herbst_05-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/450px-Ruhland_Grenzstr._Wald_zur_Autobahn_an_der_Energieschneise_Birken-Rotkappe_Herbst_05.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29354'>\n\t\t\t\tWilhelm Zimmerling PAR, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/640px-ruhland_anglerweg_wald_am_rundweg_beim_angelteich__alte_badeanstalt_birken-rotkappe_spatfruhling_01-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/640px-Ruhland_Anglerweg_Wald_am_Rundweg_beim_Angelteich__alte_Badeanstalt_Birken-Rotkappe_Spatfruhling_01-1-300x181.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/640px-Ruhland_Anglerweg_Wald_am_Rundweg_beim_Angelteich__alte_Badeanstalt_Birken-Rotkappe_Spatfruhling_01-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/640px-Ruhland_Anglerweg_Wald_am_Rundweg_beim_Angelteich__alte_Badeanstalt_Birken-Rotkappe_Spatfruhling_01-1-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/640px-Ruhland_Anglerweg_Wald_am_Rundweg_beim_Angelteich__alte_Badeanstalt_Birken-Rotkappe_Spatfruhling_01-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29355'>\n\t\t\t\tWilhelm Zimmerling PAR, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/orange_birch_bolete_leccinum_versipelle_-_geograph-org-uk_-_1560005\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange_Birch_Bolete_Leccinum_versipelle_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1560005-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Orange Birch Bolete\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange_Birch_Bolete_Leccinum_versipelle_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1560005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange_Birch_Bolete_Leccinum_versipelle_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1560005-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange_Birch_Bolete_Leccinum_versipelle_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1560005.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29356'>\n\t\t\t\tOrange Birch Bolete &#8211; John Fielding\u00a0\/\u00a0Orange Birch Bolete (Leccinum versipelle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/orange-birch-bolete-picked-min\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/25\/identify-orange-birch-boletes\/orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min-257x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>The Orange Birch Bolete is a tasty Bolete with a bright cap and dirty looking stipe, this like many other edible boletes are very tasty.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Leccinium Versipellis<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><hr \/>\r\n<h2>Common names<\/h2>\r\n<p>Orange birch bolete, dark-stalked bolete<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Family<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Leccinium<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:image \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Habitat<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Common in temperate areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas\u2019 grows as the name suggests under silver birch trees. They prefer acidic soil, woodland edges and heathland<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Description<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>A tasty Bolete with a bright cap and dirty looking stipe, this like many other edible boletes are very tasty and nearly match the Cep\/Porcini in flavour, thier bright orange cap can make them both easy to spot in early autumn but harder towards the end as it hides it neatly in the leaf litter.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading -->\r\n<h2><strong>Identifying Features:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Cap:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Starting ovate and becoming convex. Colour is orange to buff. The cap slightly overhangs the pores.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136382\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-in-situ-min.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Stem:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>White to cream with brown and black scales all over the stem giving it a dirty looks. The stem can often be longer than the cap is wide.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-136381\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Orange-birch-bolete-picked-min.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<hr \/><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<h2><strong>Pores:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Pores on the underside of the cap are light yellow going browner with age.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Smell:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Deep mushroom scent<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Spores:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Brown<\/p>\r\n<hr \/><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<h2><strong>Uses<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h2><strong>In food<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Can be used in a vast number of recipes, however, one of our favourites is simply fried quickly and stirred through white rice to give bright flecks of purple.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading -->\r\n<p>It has a excellent flavour that is nearly as good as the Porcini\/Cep so works well as a flavour enhancer in any dish. however these must be cooked for 15 to 20 minutes as they are poisonous when raw.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is a very large mushroom, and caps mature at between 8 and 20cm diameter so you will not need a huge amount. Can be used to make up the number of Ceps in a recipe or as a replacement.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Known hazards<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Must be cooked as poisonous when raw, needs 10- 20 mins of cooking to make it safe.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:heading --><hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong>Potential lookalikes<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Potentially The Orange Oak Bolete as it can grow with Birch but the two are edible if well cooked. however the cap overhanging the spores is a feature that only the Orange Birch Bolete has so is a good identifier.<\/p>\r\n<p>Maybe other <a href=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/30\/porcini-penny-bun-cep-boletus-edulis-identification\/\">boletes such as the Penny bun but this lacks the black scales on the stem<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange Birch Bolete \/ Summer \/ Autumn \/ Edible The Orange Birch Bolete is a tasty Bolete with a bright cap and dirty looking stipe, this like many other edible boletes are very tasty. Scientific Name Leccinium Versipellis Common names Orange birch bolete, dark-stalked bolete Family Leccinium Habitat Common in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":29352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,1778,1780,88,1777],"tags":[423,425,424,427,152,2043,389,421,383,422,2959],"class_list":["post-29330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mushroom-identification","category-autumn","category-edible","category-mushrooms","category-summer","tag-birch","tag-bolete","tag-boloete","tag-cep","tag-edible","tag-edible-bolete","tag-fungi","tag-leccinium-verispellis","tag-mushrooms","tag-orange","tag-orange-birch-bolete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136383,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions\/136383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}