Polish mushroom (Imleria badia) dried. A very good edible mushroom. They are used fresh (boiled, fried), dried and marinated in reserve. Polish mushroom also has medicinal properties. The cap is 4-10 (12-15) cm in diameter, thick-fleshy, hemispherical later convex-spreading, dark brown, of various shades, bare, dry, slightly sticky in wet weather. The skin is not removed. The pores are angular, whitish, eventually turning yellowish, greenish or olive-yellow, becoming bluish-green to the touch, later brownish. Spores 12-16 X 4.5-6 μm. Leg 4-10(12) X 1-3(4) cm, hat color or lighter, glabrous or fibrous, sometimes thinly scaly, turning blue to the touch. The pulp is white or yellowish, darker under the skin, turns a little blue when cut in the air, has a pleasant taste and smell. Use Grows in coniferous and mixed (with pine) forests, mainly on sandy soil; in July - October. A very good edible mushroom. They are used fresh (boiled, fried), dried and marinated in reserve. Polish mushroom also has medicinal properties.