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Hats: size of 8-20 cm. Half-round, pudgy, and remains convex in older specimens. Thick, solid, aging becomes softer, smooth or with tiny bumps, due to moisture shrimp hat gets glitter and sticky it is. The most common is the ocher-pink color, but can be totally cream-grayish color, often with yellow, tan or sometimes greenish hues. Sometimes, the more pronounced crvenoruzicastom color. At the touch does not change color to blue, possibly a little stronger red. Slug: are up to 2 cm long, come closest to the handle, at first yellow in color, later green-yellow color, at the intersection of flooding. The holes are small, irregular, initially yellow-orange, bright red paint later, the pressure get a dark blue color. SASSY height of 16 cm up to 6 cm. Full hard, can be cylindrical or batinasto thickened, paunchy when young. Subject to the color is yellow or straw-colored; through it is hooked reddish dense mesh. Mesh usually covers the entire handle, only the bottom can be lost. MEAT: thick, stiff in the handle, the hat softer. The hat pale yellow color on the handle more distinct yellow color, basically daring red-brown. At the intersection of the flood only hat in the handle remains unchangeable yellow color. In places where the handle was damaged, looms the yellow color. The smell and taste is very pleasant, fruity odor reminiscent of perfume. MICROSCOPY: spores yellowish, elliptical fusiform, 10-15 x 4-5 um. Habitats and extent: in deciduous forests on limestone warmer ground, especially with oak and beech. In the lowlands is not growing, represented in the mountainous and subalpine zone. Very rare fungus grows most often in groups of several pieces, rarely individually. Edibility: edible mushroom on probation, before use should be thermally processed because the raw mildly toxic. The growing period: from the beginning of summer, the beginning of autumn. SIMILAR SPECIES: amazing double is the type of Boletus rubrosanguineus (Wälty) ex Cheype, which grows at higher elevations in coniferous forests (spruce and fir). Rhodoxanthus while a young pink-grayish shade hat, and rubrosanguineus without significant impurities or slightly rose-colored, but is more grayish okerzelenkast, and how old it turns red while rhodoxanthus remain still pink or even fade. Some of the yellow-purple mushroom perhaps mixed in with loony bin (Boletus satanas), but nuthouse almost never has Noci tones per hat and has an unpleasant odor. There is a great similarity with the type of Boletus rhodopurpureus Smotlacha, but his hat to the pressure changes color to a dark blue flesh and flooding at the intersection, and the handle.