2. Cap Tastes Sour or Acidic
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Exsudoporus frostii (“Candy Apple Bolete”)
Candy-apple red (sometimes duller) cap, pores, and stem. Viscid cap. Pores & flesh bruise blue. Stem has coarse, raised netting. Sour taste. Likes oak.
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Hemileccinum floridanum
“Hi, I’m an undistinctive southern bolete.” Reddish brown cap skin may taste acidic. White flesh may be pinkish-red by the cap skin, & slowly stains yellow from the cap edge in & stem top down.
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Hemileccinum subglabripes
Think hortonii with a smooth or barely-wrinkled red-brown cap. Cap flesh may taste slightly acidic, & may blue, but rarely.
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Leccinum barrowsii
Found only in Santa Clara Canyon near Santa Fe, NM. Pale rose pink cap ages to grayish white. Inconspicuous white scabers on stem dry to dark gray. Likes conifers.
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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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Neoboletus subvelutipes (“Red Mouth Bolete”)
Red/brown/orange pores instantly stain blue, as does the bright yellow flesh. Blue-staining red/yellow stem has no netting, and may have velvety hairs at the base.
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Phylloporopsis boletinoides (“Gilled Bolete”)
Gills (not pores) are more olive-buff than yellow, rarely stain blue or blue-green. Whitish flesh slowly stains gray & may taste slightly acidic.
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Pulchroboletus rubricitrinus
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.
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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.
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Suillus acidus (“Sour Cap Suillus”)
Cap ages from pinkish- or yellow-buff to yellow-brown. Cap skin usually tastes acidic. Stem will snap like a twig, is buff- to tan-yellow, & has red-brown dots. Often has a viscid, yellowish ring.
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Suillus americanus (“Chicken Fat Suillus”)
Very viscid yellow cap, often w/red markings, stains fingers brown when handled. Grows under white pine. Yellow pores slowly stain reddish brown.
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Suillus clintonianus (“Larch Suillus”)
Pale- to orange-yellow cap flesh stains pinkish brown. Viscid cap. Cap-colored stem usually has yellow band above the ring & white below. Ammonia/KOH on cap. Grows w/larch.
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Suillus fuscotomentosus
Brown fibers/scales cover cap’s buff-yellow-tan base color. Yellow stem has obvious brown or red-brown dots. May taste a little sour.
Read moreSuillus helenae
Brownish- to orange-yellow cap flesh tastes acidic & DNS. Very viscid, pale brown, smaller, conical to bell-shaped cap w/yellowish tints by edge.
