A medium-sized bolete assocciated with conifers or beech.  The cap is smooth, usually chestnut-brown and smooth or slightly felty.  It can be variable in colour and older specimens may be viscid when wet.  The stipe can also vary - usually it is reddiish, slender and cylindrical.   The pores are white to yellowish and quickly stain blue when bruised.  The flesh also colours slightly pale blue when cut. 

The Cep, Boletus edulis, also has pale pores, but has a reticulate stem and does not stain blue.  The pores of several other species do stain blue (so a blue stain on pores is not diagnostic for Bay Bolete; check other features)

Photograph a fresh specimen from top down and in side view, and underneath to show pores and full length of stipe.  Note habitat and substrate. Check for staining on cap and pores when bruised.  We also recommend cutting vertically through cap and stem to show flesh colour and any staining. 

under conifer or beech trees or woodlands

Autumn

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.