Cap Flesh Stains a Color Other than Blue
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Leccinum arbuticola
Brown/olive pores darken or stain pinkish-brown. White stem instantly stains blue & has spots that age to dark brown. Viscid-when-damp tan/brown cap may bruise blue, but white flesh stains red & then brown.
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Leccinum arctostaphylos
A favorite of Alaskan foragers. White-pink cap flesh slowly stains gray to pale bluish gray. Likes kinnikinnick at higher elevations or bearberry in the tundra.
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Leccinum arenicola (“Sand Loving Leccinum”)
Grows in or near northern Atlantic coast beaches in sandy soil. Wrinkled, oft-cracked or fissured, orange to yellow-orange cap fades w/age.
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Leccinum areolatum
White cap flesh slowly stains lilac, resolving to purple-gray or blackish. Buff to yellowish pores have brownish zones & stain dark purplish- or brownish-gray. Likes birch & aspen.
Read moreLeccinum armeniacum (“Apricot Bolete”)
Cap is apricot-orange. Pores stain an odd lilac or flesh color. Stem is white with spots. Likes madrone.
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Leccinum aurantiacum (placeholder for deciduous mates)
Bright orange/red cap. White pores age toward brown, & stain brown or red-brown. Flesh stains red, darkening to purple-gray or black.
Read moreLeccinum 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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Leccinum cf. carpini
Brownish cap (lighter at the edge) wrinkles & pits w/age, sometimes cracking. Cap flesh stains reddish, slowly darkening to purple-brown. Likes hornbeam (a/k/a ironwood).
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Leccinum chalybaeum
Very firm, shorter salt & pepper stem. Flesh bruises pinkish, aging toward dark purplish gray. Whitish pores are depressed by the stem & bruise olive/brownish. Likes sandy soil near oak.
Read moreLeccinum clavatum
Stem swells going down. White to pale pink-buff cap cracks & fissures when mature. White-buff pores stain brown.
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Leccinum discolor
Whitish pores age to greenish yellow or olive-brown & bruise dark brown. White cap flesh stains pink to orange-brown, resolving to dark purple-brown or brown-black. Likes pine & aspen.
Read moreLeccinum fallax
Whitish stem w/dark brown scabers swells to a bulb at the base. Stem flesh may have greenish-blue stains at base. White-buff pores bruise reddish brown. Likes conifers.
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Leccinum fibrillosum
Cap- and upper-stem flesh stain pink, then darken to dull purplish. Thick pepper-on-salt stem. Buff pores age to olive-brown, & stain brown. Likes conifers.
Read moreLeccinum flavostipitatum
Pale yellow stem (drying bright yellow!), rarely gray-white, w/brown-black scabers & often blue-green tints by base. Shallow pores. Likes spruce.
