About
Aspen bolete is a forest mushroom with an orange-red or red-brown cap. It is gathered in mixed woods in summer and autumn.
Fresh harvest season
An orientation window for local open-field harvest in the regions already documented in the atlas — not retail, import, or storage availability.
Atlas regions summary: June 15 – September 30
Regions with data: Moscow OblastLeningrad OblastRepublic of Karelia
By region
| Region | Season | Peak | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow Oblast | June 15 – September 20 | June 21 – August 10 | Approximate |
| Leningrad Oblast | July 1 – September 30 | — | Approximate |
| Republic of Karelia | July 1 – September 30 | — | Approximate |
In the kitchen
Aspen boletes are fried and stewed and added to soups.
Seasonality by region
Republic of Karelia(RU-KR)
Season: July – September; Beginning; Active; Ending BeginningActiveEnding
- Season
- July 1 – September 30
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Aspen bolete. Shubin 1976: June–October; present in the 1st layer, but those are short senokosniki. Start 1 July (typical, not sparse June); end 30 September. The Moscow window is not copied. No explicit peak: available sources do not justify a narrower window without false precision.
Sources
Mushrooms of the northern forests (Shubin, 1976): layers and months for Petrozavodsk latitude
Shubin V.I. — Griby severnykh lesov, 3rd ed., Petrozavodsk: Karelia
Layer calendar compiled for Petrozavodsk latitude (not Leningrad Oblast): 1st layer second half of June, short and few; 2nd 1st–2nd decades of July; 3rd from 2nd decade of August through October, often peaking in September. Same-book species accounts: chanterelle July–October; birch and aspen bolete June–October; true milk cap July–September (black milk cap separate); saffron milk cap July–October; autumn honey fungus abundant about two weeks, usually first half of September (1968 early August is an exception). Summer honey fungus June–August is not this product. Porcini is not modelled from this row (1986 monograph). Catalog morel (Morchella) uses a separate source row; April–May Gyromitra is not that product.
Leningrad Oblast(RU-LEN)
Season: July – September; Beginning; Active; Ending BeginningActiveEnding
- Season
- July 1 – September 30
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Aspen bolete. 2015: Leccinum aurantiacum July–September. Start 1 July; end 30 September. Karelia and Moscow are not copied. No explicit peak: available sources do not justify a narrower window without false precision.
Sources
Macromycetes of Nizhnesvirsky Reserve (Stolyarskaya et al., 2015)
Zmitrovich I.V., Stolyarskaya M.V. et al.; ed. Stolyarskaya M.V. — St Petersburg, ISBN 978-5-4386-0925-4
Annotated list of 806 species, north-east Leningrad Oblast (Lodeynopolsky District, middle taiga), not the whole subject and not the Karelian Isthmus. Chanterelle June–October, very frequent; porcini and pine porcini June–October; birch bolete June–September, very frequent; aspen bolete July–September; northern honey fungus (Armillaria borealis) August–September, layer usually short; saffron milk cap August–October, rather rare (1993 plot layer 2–15 October); true milk cap July–September. Morel is rare; 28 June 1993 mass on a burn is not a typical oblast harvest. Shubin’s Karelian calendar and Moscow handbooks are not copied.
Moscow Oblast(RU-MOS)
Season: June – September; Beginning; Peak; Ending BeginningPeakEnding
- Season
- June 15 – September 20
- Peak
- June 21 – August 10
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Smirnyakov 1992: abundant from the 3rd decade of June through the 1st decade of August, mass through the 2nd decade of September. Fedorov 1990: second half of June to October. Gorlenko 1986: June–October. Start 15 June from Fedorov; end 20 September is Smirnyakov’s last mass decade (October empty in that calendar).
Sources
Mushroom-picker calendar for the central oblasts of European Russia (Smirnyakov, Koshcheev, 1992)
Smirnyakov Yu.I., Koshcheev A.K., Koshcheev A.A. — Sputnik gribnika
Appendix: decade calendar (May–October). Legend: 0 first fruiting bodies, “-” mass growth, х abundant fruiting, = warm autumn only. Does not name Moscow Oblast separately; “central oblasts” is the belt that includes it. A handbook, not a multi-year plot study.
Gorlenko M.V., Garibova L.V., Sidorova I.I. — Vsyo o gribakh
Monthly presence table (April–October) for the middle belt. Chanterelle VII–IX; porcini VI–X; birch bolete VI–IX; aspen bolete VI–X; autumn honey fungus IX–X (summer honey fungus is a separate VI–X row). No intra-month dates and no named oblast.
Species accounts: aspen bolete, birch bolete, autumn honey fungus (Fedorov, 1990)
Fedorov F.V. — Griby
Aspen bolete: second half of June to October. Birch bolete: end of May to late autumn. Autumn honey fungus (Armillariella mellea): late August or early September until stable frosts. The spruce porcini form (late July–third decade of August) is not all porcini. Geography is USSR/Russia forests, not the three MVP oblasts.
