Cap Flesh Stains a Color Other than Blue
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Gyroporus cyanescens (“Bluing Bolete”)
Brittle white cap flesh (dark brown zone by skin) stains indigo blue, resolving to creamy buff. Stem flesh blues stronger. Cap-colored stem is hollow & stuffed with “cotton.”
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Gyroporus phaeocyanescens
White cap flesh w/dark brown zone by the skin, stains indigo blue, sometimes erratically, resolving to creamy buff. Stem flesh blues stronger. A southern species.
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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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Hongoboletus americanus
Pores & flesh bruise blue, evolving to deep brown after 10-20 minutes. Think “red-capped L. pseudosensibilis with red where nature hurt the stem.”
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Hortiboletus campestris (“Field Bolete”)
Found in lawns and roadsides. Yellow stem- & paler cap-flesh both stain greenish blue. Yellow pores age to greenish- or olive-yellow. Never gets bigger than 1-1/2″ across.
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Hortiboletus flavorubellus
Bright yellow cap flesh slowly stains bluish-green, while stem flesh stains blue/green on top & orange by the base. Very deep xerocomoid yellow pores stain blue/green.
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Imleria badia (“Bay Bolete”)
Bay-brown cap, often flat or convex. Yellow pores may age greenish, bruise blue/gray green, & are depressed by stem. White cap flesh may bruise pink or blue but only by the tubes.
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Imleria floridana
Bay-brown cap w/yellow pores that bruise blue, evolving to brown. Red/brown over yellow stem tapers down. White flesh gently blues near pores, may pink elsewhere, brownish red by cap skin.
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Imleria pallida (“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.
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Lanmaoa carbonilivor (nom. prov.)
Strong bouillon/curry odor. Flesh (yellow by skin, paler within) quickly bruises blue, fading to charcoal. Deep red cap fades toward brown w/age, & bruises dark.
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Lanmaoa carminipora
Deep red or red-&-yellow, oft-netted stem. Yellow baby pores soon turn red before fading back toward yellow in age. Pores bruise bluish green, resolving to dull olive.
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Lanmaoa pseudosensibilis
Yellow pores bruise blue before slowly (10-15 minutes) fading to a deep, rich, characteristic brown. Yellow flesh bruises blue before fading to brown.
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Leccinum aeneum
Found in the California Sierra Nevadas. White cap flesh slowly stains purplish-gray or -brown, & stem flesh stains green by base. Likes manzanita, bearberry, & their relatives.
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Leccinum alaskanum
Found in Alaska. Dark brown to blackish, often mottled cap ages from velvety to slightly viscid. Whitish pores age to dull brown & bruise darker brown.
