Primary Stem Color is: 5- Black, Dark Brown, or Dark Gray
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Leccinum largentii (“Largent’s Bolete”)
Oft-swollen, whitish stem w/ dark scabers that often age to form netting. White cap flesh DNS or reddens a bit by the stem. Likes toyon, madrone, & manzanita.
Read moreLeccinum luteum
Cap ages from pale yellow to olive-brown & from wrinkled to pitted to fissured. Likes hornbeam & ironwood. Flesh stains pinkish gray, resolving to brown.
Read moreLeccinum manzanitae (“Manzanita Bolete”)
White cap flesh slowly stains purple- or gray-brown. Whitish stem w/dense white scabers that darken w/age to red-black. Viscid red or red-brown cap.
Read moreLeccinum montanum
White-buff pores age to pale cinnamon-brown, & stain yellow- to dark-brown. Oft-pitted, buff-brown to gray-brown cap. White cap flesh rarely stains gray.
Read moreLeccinum piceinum (placeholder for spruce)
Dull orange cap. Likes spruce. Flesh stains red, darkening to purple-gray or black, esp. by stem.
Read moreLeccinum ponderosum
Orange- to brick-red cap ages to the cupcake shape, w/pores coming up the sides. A great big mushroom that grows on or around decaying pines.
Read moreLeccinum potteri
Tawny- to brick-orange cap w/white patches from its baby veil. Likes large-toothed aspen & oak.
Read moreLeccinum 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.
Read moreLeccinum quercophilum
White stem w/fine brown scabers that bruise bluish-green. Wrinkled/pitted, dull- to yellow-brown cap bruises bluish-green & often cracks & fissures w/age. Likes oak.
Read moreLeccinum roseoscabrum
Pink scabers & ridges, esp. lower down, on an oft-curved white stem. Scabers darken w/age or handling. Oft-wrinkled, oft-spotted, dark- to chestnut-brown cap fades w/age.
Read moreLeccinum scabrum (“Birch Bolete”)
Classic salt & pepper stem often has blue-green stains by base. Whitish pores age to gray-brown & may stain slowly yellow.
Read moreLeccinum 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.
Read moreLeccinum subalpinum
Dark red-brown to rusty-red, oft-velvety cap. White-buff pores bruise reddish brown. Likes high altitude, Arizona/Utah Rocky Mountain conifers.
Read moreLeccinum subleucophaeum
Whitish pores age to gray or gray-brown, & stain yellow-brown. White cap flesh slowly stains gray, but stem flesh may stain red first, & may end bluish.