ZONE 5 - the SOUTH
East Texas and Oklahoma east to the coast, north to Virginia, and back including Kentucky and Tennessee.
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1. Found in Alabama (57)
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2. Found in Florida (109)
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3. Found in Louisiana (52)
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4. Found in Mississippi (45)
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6. Found in Eastern Texas (110)
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5. Found in North Carolina (136)
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Alessioporus rubriflavus
Mottled cap bruises bluish & tastes vaguely sour. Yellow flesh stains blue, often w/red in the stem base. Yellow stem bruises blue, fading to brown. Yellow netting darkens lower down or if handled.
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Amoenoboletus weberi
Brownish cap dry, scaly & oft-cracked. Pale yellow flesh DNS & tastes “tart and somewhat lemony.” Reddish, oft-scaly stem. Reddish pores.
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Aureoboletus abruptibulbus (“Sand Bolete”)
Likes sand dunes. Very bulbous stem is yellow high but darkens to the cap color going down. Red- or dark-brown cap ages cinnamon.
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Aureoboletus auriflammeus (“Flaming Gold Bolete”)
Stains fingers yellow when handled. Flaming gold cap & stem. Flaming gold pores age toward greenish yellow, DNS, & may have bright red tints.
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Aureoboletus auriporus (“Sour Gold-Pored Bolete”)
Brilliant yellow pores dull w/ age & usually stain a slow brick red. Pinkish red layer above cap flesh & below cap skin. Viscid, easy to remove cap skin tastes sour. Stem often long.
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Aureoboletus betula (“Shaggy Stalked Bolete”)
Cap ranges from yellow to very red. Long, shaggy, oft-curved stem. Flesh green-yellow or orange-yellow. Very deep pores. Tart flavor.
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Aureoboletus gentilis
Smaller (<3″), viscid-when-wet, pale gray- pink to -brown, oft-streaked cap. White cap flesh DNS, & may smell fruity. Yellow stem gets reddish brown going down.
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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 projectellus
Cap flesh tastes lemony. Well-netted red to brown stem. Likes sandy soil and pine, esp. Scots Pine. Cap edge projects past the pores to form a ridge.
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Aureoboletus pseudoauriporus
Brilliant yellow pores dull w/ age & DNS. Smooth pinkish cap tans w/age & has sour skin. Stem striations distinguish from regular auriporus. Stem gets woody by base
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Aureoboletus roxanae
Grainy cap smooths a bit w/age. Pale cap flesh DNS & can have an unpleasant taste. White pores age yellow, & stain cinnamon. Yellow-orange, lined stem w/orange band on top.
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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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Austroboletus subflavidus
Smells fruity but tastes bitter. Stem with thick, raised netting & often a yellow base. Babies may have clear fluid beads on the pores.
