Boletellus chrysenteroides

Reddish brown/black, scabered stem, often w/yellow high up, stains blue from handling & then slowly reddens. Grows on or around dead wood. Yellowish pores bruise blue.

SKU: Boletellus chrysenteroides Categories: 1. Found in Connecticut, 1. Found in Northern Illinois, 2. Cap Tastes Sour or Acidic, 2. Found in Florida, 2. Found in New Jersey, 3. Found in Michigan, 4. Found in Ohio, 4. Found in Pennsylvania, 4a. Found in S.W. Pennsylvania, 5. Found in North Carolina, 5. Found in Ontario, 5. Found in W. Va. or the Central Appalachians, 6. Found in Eastern Texas, 6. Found in Quebec, CAP COLOR FILTERS, CAP FLESH COLOR FILTERS, Cap Flesh is White, Cap Flesh is Yellow, CAP FLESH STAINING FILTERS, Cap Flesh Stains Blue, CAP SIZE FILTERS, CAP TASTE FILTERS, CAP TEXTURE FILTERS, Cap Texture is: 1- Dry & Smooth (Normal), Cap Texture is: 4- Cracked Beyond Environmental Effects, Coniferous ("Needle-y") Trees, Deciduous (Leafy) Trees, Edibility: 4- Good, FILTER SET #1: REGION, FILTER SET #2: CAP FEATURES, FILTER SET #3: PORE FEATURES, FILTER SET #4: STEM FEATURES, FILTER SET #5: CAP FLESH (CONTEXT) FEATURES, FILTER SET #6: SPORE PRINT, FILTER SET #7: HABITAT FILTERS, FILTER SET #8: EDIBILITY, My Mushroom is Mature & Its Pores are Huge, My Mushroom is Mature & Its Pores are Tiny, My Mushroom's Cap is >0.1" Across, PORE COLOR FILTERS, PORE SIZE FILTERS, PORE STAINING FILTERS, Pores Stain Blue, Primary Cap Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Primary Cap Color is: 5- Black, Dark Brown, or Dark Gray, Primary Pore Color is: 2 - Yellow to Gold, Primary Stem Color is: 3- Red, Pink, Purple, or Orange, Primary Stem Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Primary Stem Color is: 5- Black, Dark Brown, or Dark Gray, Spore Print is 1- Olive to Olive-Brown, Spore Print is 4- Plain Old Brown, STEM COLOR FILTERS, STEM DECORATION/ TEXTURE FILTERS, Stem Is Thin & Stringy, STEM SIZE FILTERS, Stem: 1- Has No Significant Ornaments, Stem: 5- Is Netted (Reticulated), Stem: 6- Has Scabers/Scales, ZONE 1- the NORTHEAST, ZONE 2- the MIDWEST, ZONE 5 - the SOUTH

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Name in North American Boletes: Boletellus chrysenteroides

Genus: Boletellus

Species: chrysenteroides

Common Name:

Tells: Reddish brown/black, scabered stem, often w/yellow high up, stains blue from handling & then slowly reddens. Grows on or around dead wood. Yellowish pores bruise blue.

Other Information: Dark cap often cracks w/age, showing red in the splits. Pale yellow cap flesh stains blue, often slowly. Stem stains blue and then slowly reddens when handled. An interesting but fairly rare mushroom described by MushroomExpert.com as: “Leccinum-like in its stem, Boletus Chrysenteron-like in its cap, and boletellus-like in its longitudinally ridged spores.” Likes oak best, but also pine. Usually a summer or fall find.

Edibility: Good.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

NH4OH (Ammonia): Per Michael Kuo, Cap turns black, & cap flesh turns brown. (No data in North American Boletes).
KOH: Cap turns black. Cap flesh turns brown.
FeSO4 (Iron Salts): Cap flesh turns olive.

Links:

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff

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