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Old man of the woods

Strobilomyces floccopus

Photo by mary.gallo.m
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Field Notes

Description:

This old man of the woods is very spotty, like dense leopard skin. Grayish black cap with white to dark gray tubes and wooly-scaly blackish stalk. When looking under it I was surprised that it is a bolete.

Habitat:

This old man of the woods bolete was spotted under a big oak tree in our yard.

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PublishedJuly 7, 2014

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