5. Found in W. Va. or the Central Appalachians
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Leccinum piceinum (placeholder for spruce)
Dull orange cap. Likes spruce. Flesh stains red, darkening to purple-gray or black, esp. by stem.
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Leccinum pseudoinsigne
Yellow to red-orange, sometimes viscid cap. When young, white cap flesh stains reddish cinnamon & resolves to bluish brown-gray. Mature flesh stains straight violet-gray. Likes birch & aspen.
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Leccinum rugosiceps (“Wrinkled Bolete”)
Deeply wrinkled cap cracks w/age. Tiny yellow pores may have blue-green stains but either DNS or bruise a slow yellow-brown. Flesh slowly stains red, esp. where cap meets stem.
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Leccinum scabrum (“Birch Bolete”)
Classic salt & pepper stem often has blue-green stains by base. Whitish pores age to gray-brown & may stain slowly yellow.
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Leccinum snellii (“Snell’s Bolete”)
Dark brown-black, often mottled cap. White stem flesh stains pink high and blue-green low, often slowly, then slooowly darkens toward purple-gray or black.
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Leccinum vulpinum (placeholder for coniferous mates)
Bright orange/red cap. White pores age toward brown, & stain brown or red-brown. Flesh stains red, darkening to purple-gray or black.
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Neoboletus discolor [auct. amer.] (“Scarletina”)
Yellow/red cap bruises black. Yellow baby pores age to bright red & blue instantly. Yellow flesh blues instantly. Hugely variable yellow stem bruises blue-black.
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Neoboletus luridiformis [auct. amer.] (“Dark Capped Scarletina”)
Think “Darker Capped discolor”. Yellow stem often has a red or orange-red zone in the middle, & blues when bruised. Blue-bruising yellow baby pores soon age to red. Yellow flesh quickly blues. Likes oak.
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Neoboletus pseudosulphureus
Bright yellow cap ages red/browner & bruises blue-black. Bright yellow flesh & pores blue quickly, w/pores resolving to brown. Stem flesh is dark red by the base, which blues faster.
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Phylloporus leucomycelinus (“Gilled Bolete”)
Has gills instead of pores, which DNS. White mycelium. Dark red to reddish- or chestnut brown cap cracks & fissures w/age.
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Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (“Gilled Bolete”)
Has gills instead of pores, which DNS. Yellow mycelium. Variable (reddish-yellow, red, dark red, red-brown, to olive-brown) cap cracks & fissures w/age.
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Phylloporus rhodoxanthus ssp. foliiporus (“Bluing Gilled Bolete”)
Has gills instead of pores. Gills bruise blue. Yellow mycelium. Cinnamon- to dark-brown cap.
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Pseudoboletus parasiticus (“Parasitic Bolete”)
Grows on the Poison Pigskin Puffball. Yellow/brown pores may stain reddish.
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Pulchroboletus sclerotiorum (“Whitey’s Bolete”)
Some-shade-of-red cap. Yellow stem typically has bright red near the base, with dots/smears but not netting. Slightly acidic flavor. Yellow cap flesh quickly stains blue.
