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Bolete

Boletus fraternus

Photo by JC_Forester
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Field Notes

Description:

Caps: 2 to 5 centimeters wide, convex to nearly flat, rimose, red, velvety, cracked with yellow showing within the cracks; flesh is yellow, bruising blue.

Pore surface: Yellow at first, turning brownish with age, bruising blue, area around the stem depressed; up to 2 angular pores per millimeter; tubes are up to 1 centimeter deep.

Stems: 2 to 5 centimeters tall by up to 1 centimeter thick, red, yellow at the apex, solid; equal, tapering at the base; white to yellowed basal mycelium.

Context: Yellow, bruising blue.

Spore print: Olive-brown.

Habitat: Hardwoods.

Season: Summer.

Edibility: Not edible.

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