Chalciporus pseudorubinellus

Bright rose-red pores age to orange or yellow-brown. Yellow or pinkish, viscid-when-wet cap ages to pink-cinnamon. Pale yellow flesh DNS. Yellow mycelium.

Description

Genus: Chalciporus

  • Genus 2: Boletus

Species: pseudorubinellus

Common Name:

Full Description: Bright rose-red pores age to orange or yellow-brown. Yellow or pinkish, viscid-when-wet cap ages to pink-cinnamon. Pale yellow flesh DNS. Yellow mycelium.

Other Information: Mostly rose-red stem is yellow by the base. Grows in moss in conifer woods. Chal. rubinellus lacks the yellow mycelium.

Edibility: Unknown.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

  • NH4OH (Ammonia): No data.
  • KOH: No data.
  • FeSO4 (Iron Salts): No data.

Links:

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff 0 Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians 0 North American Boletes 173 196

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