Boletes
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Caloboletus roseipes (“Rosy Foot Bolete”)
Pale cap flesh tastes bitter & stains blue. Blue-staining stem is clean yellow at the top. Yellow pores age brownish & stain blue.
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Caloboletus rubripes (“Western Bitter Bolete”)
Pale cap flesh blues instantly, tastes bitter & often smells bad. Yellow pores blue instantly. Buff to olive- or gray-brown cap bruises brown & often cracks & fissures w/age.
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Chalciporus piperatoides
Slow, acrid flavor. Pinkish to yellowish buff-brown flesh, usually blues esp. by the tubes. Yellow pores age to cinnamon & stain blackish blue. Bright yellow mycelium.
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Chalciporus piperatus (“Peppery Bolete”)
Harsh, acrid peppery flavor. Bright yellow mycelium. Yellow cap flesh ages to dingy purple. Pores may stain brown (blue/black bruising = piperatoides).
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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.
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Chalciporus rubinellus
Bright yellow flesh DNS. Reddish cap yellows & cracks w/age, never more than 2″ across. Rose-red or -pink pores.
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Chalciporus rubritubifer
Found in Florida. Yellow cap flesh DNS & has a red line above the tubes. Grayish- to dull-red pores age to brownish orange to copper & DNS.
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Cyanoboletus bessettei (“Swamp Fox”)
Reddish- or buff-brown cap pales from the edge in. Pale yellow flesh bruises blue-green, fading to peach & then dull pinkish orange. Unpleasant chemical odor.
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Cyanoboletus cyaneitinctus
Quick-bluing stem flesh is yellow high & brown at the base. Yellow pores and stem (gets redder going down) bruise blue but resolve to brown.
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Exsudoporus floridanus
Viscid red cap. Yellow cap flesh blues. Red stem very netted, esp. high up. Red or orange-red pores stain blue, w/yellow drops on babies.
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Exsudoporus frostii (“Candy Apple Bolete”)
Candy-apple red (sometimes duller) cap, pores, and stem. Viscid cap. Pores & flesh bruise blue. Stem has coarse, raised netting. Sour taste. Likes oak.
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Fistuinella jamaicensis
Coarse netting on the yellow, oft-twisted stem. Pink, yellow or tan cap. Pale, nonbruising cap flesh becomes deep yellow in the stem base. Deep yellow mycelium.
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Gastroboletus citrinobrunneus
Irregular, undulating, oft-wrinkled or ridged, yellow cap w/brown on the redges & margin, quickly bruises blue-green.
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Gastroboletus ruber
Cap-colored, all-but-missing stem. Pale yellow cap flesh quickly blues. Irregular & uneven, reddish pores bruise blue.
