My Mushroom's Cap is >8” Across
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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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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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Boletus atkinsonii (“Atkinson’s Bolete”)
Grayish- to yellow-brown cap may crack w/age esp. by the edge. Buff stem w/fine brownish netting. White cap flesh DNS, & may taste nutty-sweet.
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Boletus barrowsii (“White King Bolete”)
White pores age toward yellowish or light brown. Oft-bulbous pinkish buff-to-brown stem w/fine white netting at least on top.
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Boletus billieae (“Billie’s Bolete”)
Mottled cap bruises bluish & tastes bad. 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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Boletus durhamensis
Brown pores DNS. Cap colored stem w/brown netting that ages darker. The only confirmed finds to date have been in NC and VA.
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Boletus edulis (“King Bolete”)
Buff stem w/white netting. Babies have stuffed pores. Cap colors vary hugely. White pores age to yellow, & darken w/old age. Likes conifers. Specific tree associates vary with region.
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Boletus huronensis (“False King Bolete”)
Exceptionally dense. Found in hemlock. Pale yellow pores slowly bruise green-blue, resolving toward brown. Often has a “tide mark” on the stem. Netting is rare. Often tastes sweet.
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Boletus nobilis
Pale stem w/ ever-browner streaks going down, may be “delicately netted”. Cap often pitted or wrinkled. White pores age toward brownish yellow. Likes oak & beech.
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Boletus separans (“Lilac Bolete”)
Variable cap (buff to purplish-brown) usually has lilac tones & is often wrinkled or pitted. White-netted cap-colored stem.
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Boletus variipes
Buff/yellow-brown/brown cap often cracks & fissures with age & hot weather. White pores turn dingy yellow with age. Often bulbous stem is usually netted either white or brown.
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Boletus variipes-fagicola
Dark brown-black cap often cracks & fissures w/age & hot weather. White pores age dingy yellow. Oft-bulbous stem usually has white or brown netting.
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Butyriboletus autumniregius (“Red-Capped Butter Bolete”)
Oft-pitted/wrinkled cap is usually bright rose- pink to -red. Yellow, oft-bulbous, finely netted stem stains blue. Grows w/mid-elevation mixed woods (not oak) in autumn.
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Butyriboletus persolidus (“Butter Bolete”)
Short, butter-yellow, oft-bulbous stem may have red-brown stains, esp. lower down. Yellow pores darken w/age & stain blue. Firm texture.
