1. Found in Northern Illinois
Anyplace where if you said “the City”, people could reasonably think you’re probably referring to Chicago, Illinois. Based on the list found at http://www.nirmi.org/keys/boletes/key.html.
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Aureoboletus auriporus (“Sour Gold-Pored Bolete”)
Brilliant yellow pores dull w/ age & slowly stain red. Pinkish red layer above cap flesh & below cap skin. Cap viscid w/ easy to remove skin that tastes acidic. Stem often long.
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Aureoboletus innixus (“Clustered Brown Bolete”)
Often grows in clusters. Yellow w/brown stem often viscid by base. Bright yellow mycelium. Pale cap flesh w/ reddish brown by the skin. Powerful odor.
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Aureoboletus russellii (“Russell’s Bolete”)
Long, deeply textured, pink-tan to red-brown stem is quite viscid, esp. by the base. Variable-colored cap often fissured or in scale-like patches.
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Austroboletus gracilis (“Graceful Bolete”)
Pink or whitish cap flesh DNS. Tubes are very deep & very depressed at the stem. Long, oft-curved, oft-ridged, pale-cap-colored to brownish stem.
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Baorangia bicolor (“Bicolor Bolete”)
Red cap fades w/age. Shallow, bright yellow pores may bruise blue. Red-and-yellow stem. Red bug holes in yellow stem flesh.
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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.
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Boletinellus merulioides (“Ash Tree Bolete”)
Yellow pores have distinct veins across the surface, & often stain slowly blue.
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Boletus bicoloroides
Deep red cap fades to pale orange-yellow w/red splashes. Yellow pores bruise blue. Dark red stem w/no netting. Yellow cap flesh stains blue.
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Boletus discolor
Cap bruises black. Blue-staining, orange-red pores age yellow from the edge in. Yellow stem w/ fine red-brown dots stains blue-black or browns w/age.
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Boletus edulis (“King Bolete”)
Buff stem w/white netting, usually getting more bulbous as you go down. White pores age yellow. Likes conifers.
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Smoky buff stem has red-purple streaks & red stripe on top, & browns w/age. Green-yellow pores age brownish & stain blue, resolving to brown.
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Boletus miniato-olivaceus
Rosy pink-red cap tans w/age, often w/olive patches. Yellow pores stain blue-that-browns, add red w/age & end dingy olive. Stem tapers down to yellow mycelium.
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Boletus miniato-pallescens
Yellow pores (sometimes tinted orange) age darker & bruise greenish blue. Dark red cap pales through orange toward yellow-tan, & cracks w/age.
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Boletus pallidus (“Pallid Bolete”)
White cap browns with age. White pores age yellow to greenish-yellow and bruise an odd gray-green that fades to grayish brown.
