Leccinum cf. carpini

Brownish cap (lighter at the edge) wrinkles & pits w/age, sometimes cracking. Cap flesh stains reddish, slowly darkening to purple-brown. Likes hornbeam (a/k/a ironwood).

SKU: Leccinum carpini Categories: 1. Found in Northern Illinois, 2. Found in Florida, 2. Found in Kansas, 3. Found in Michigan, 3. Found on Long Island (New York), 4. Found in Ohio, 4. Found in Pennsylvania, 5. Found in North Carolina, CAP COLOR FILTERS, CAP FLESH COLOR FILTERS, Cap Flesh is White, CAP FLESH STAINING FILTERS, Cap Flesh Stains a Color Other than Blue, CAP SIZE FILTERS, CAP TASTE FILTERS, CAP TEXTURE FILTERS, Cap Texture is: 1- Dry & Smooth (Normal), Cap Texture is: 3- Wrinkled, Pitted or Corrugated, Cap Texture is: 4- Cracked Beyond Environmental Effects, 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 Tiny, My Mushroom's Cap is >0.1" Across, My Mushroom's Cap is >4” Across, PORE COLOR FILTERS, PORE SIZE FILTERS, PORE STAINING FILTERS, Pores Stain Other than Blue, Primary Cap Color is: 2- Yellow to Orange, Primary Cap Color is: 3- Red, Pink, Purple, or Orange, Primary Cap Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Primary Pore Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Pore Color is: 2 - Yellow to Gold, Primary Stem Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Stem Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Primary Stem Color is: 5- Black, Dark Brown, or Dark Gray, Spore Print is 3- Pink-, Red-, Purple-, or Cinnamon-Brown, Spore Print is 4- Plain Old Brown, STEM COLOR FILTERS, STEM DECORATION/ TEXTURE FILTERS, Stem Is Thin & Stringy, STEM SIZE FILTERS, Stem: 6- Has Scabers/Scales, Stem: 7- Is Notably Dotted and/or Spotted, ZONE 1- the NORTHEAST, ZONE 2- the MIDWEST, ZONE 5 - the SOUTH

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[NOTE: Cover photo obtained from the Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinum_griseum. Credit given to Danny Steaven. Photo used according to the designated license. ID NOT CONFIRMED INDEPENDENTLY]

Name in North American Boletes: Leccinum carpini

Genus: Leccinum

Genus 2: Leccinellum

Species: cf. carpini (meaning it’s a European name that is wrong)

Species 2: pseudoscabrum
Species 2: griseum

Common Name:

Tells: Brownish cap (lighter at the edge) wrinkles & pits w/age, sometimes cracking. Cap flesh stains reddish, slowly darkening to purple-brown. Likes hornbeam (a/k/a ironwood).

Other Information: Cap color ranges from yellow- to olive- or purplish-brown. White pores age to grayish yellow & stain brownish yellow. White stem flesh may have greenish tints in the base. White stem w/brown to grayish scabers that darken w/age.

Science Notes: There is great confusion in the current nomenclature for North American Leccinums and Leccinellums. This is an example. Once upon a time there was a N.A. mushroom named “carpini” after its similarity to the European species of that name – this entry. DNA has proved they are not the same; but what is this one? In North American Boletes the range for “carpini” was set at Canada south to Florida, west to Michigan. In Boletes of Eastern North America the range is limited to the South, with Leccinellum griseum being limited to the south (and liking oak), Leccinellum quercophilum (new) being limited to the north, and Leccinellum crocipodium, and Leccinum rugosiceps being the wrinkled-cap scaber-stalks with broad ranges. Who knows where it will end!

Edibility: Good.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

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

Links:

Mushroom Expert (as Leccinum pseudoscabrum)
Mushroom Observer
Wikipedia
Google Image Search

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff

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