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Aureoboletus mirabilis (“Admirable Bolete”)
Deep purple or red cap browns w/age, getting more velvety & less viscid. Netted stem colored like cap, but paler. Yellow mycelium.
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Boletus aurantioruber
White pores age yellow & bruise pale green to yellowish olive. Red/brown netting may be white at the top & bruises dark. Likes conifers, esp. Pitch Pine.
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Boletus auripes (“Butter Foot Bolete”)
Golden yellow or yellow-with-brown stem has yellow netting. Nothing stains. Yellow pores darken w/ age. Dense texture w/ shallow pores.
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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 chippewaensis
Pale yellow cap w/brick-red smears. White pores age yellower & stain pinkish cinnamon (maybe gray-green in age). White netting on buff to pinkish brown stem.
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Boletus edulis (“King Bolete”)
Buff stem w/white netting, usually getting more bulbous as you go down. White pores age yellow. Likes conifers.
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Boletus edulis var. grandedulis (“Barstools”)
Viscid-when-wet cap is buff on babies but quickly ages to brown (from yellow- to red-), usually w/a yellow edge. White netted (esp. higher up) white-buff to yellow-brown stem.
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Boletus pseudopinophilus
Stem netting white high, darker on lower 75%. Reddish-brown, oft-wrinkled cap. Creamy pores age to darkening yellow & usually stain blue-gray that turns brownish.
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Boletus regineus (“Queen Bolete”)
Dark- to black- (sometimes red-) brown cap. Stout, netted, white-buff stem (babies may have pink tones) darkens to winy-brown w/age.
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Boletus reticulatus (“Summer King Bolete”)
Brown (yellow-, grayish-, or dark-) cap fissures & cracks in age. Grayish-brown stem has netting that starts white but darkens.
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Boletus rex-veris
White-buff to brown stem w/netting that darkens when handled. White pores age to brownish yellow & bruise rusty brown
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Boletus rubriceps (“Rocky Mountain Red”)
Think B. edulis w/a dark red cap (unless faded by sunlight toward yellow-brown) that grows w/mountain spruce in the Southwest. May taste sweet or nutty.
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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 subcaerulescens (“Almost Bluing King Bolete”)
Stem netting white high, darker on lower 75%. Reddish-brown, oft-wrinkled cap. Creamy pores age to yellow & usually stain blue-gray that turns brownish.
