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Chalciporus (formerly Boletus) piperatus, commonly known as the Peppery bolete, is a small pored mushroom of the Boletaceae family found in mixed woodland in Europe.
Edible but very peppery, Antonio Carluccio recommends only using it to add a peppery flavour to other mushrooms. It has been used as a peppery condiment in many countries.[1]
One of the smaller boletes, the cap is 3–6 cm across and orange-fawn coloured. The pores are orange and the flesh lemon-yellow. The spore print is cinnamon.
Found naturally in coniferous and beech and oak woodland in Europe in autumn, Chalciporus piperatus has also been able to spread into native forest in northeastern Tasmania, having been found growing with the native Myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii). [2]