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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Description

Genus: Lanmaoa

  • Genus 2: Boletus

Species: carminipora

  • Species 2: carminiporus

Common Name:

Tells: 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.

Other Information:  This is that big, red over red over red thing with yellow or pale yellow flesh; the one that’s been driving people crazy but is now figured out. Dull red cap ages to pink- or orange-red on its way to reddish- or dull-orange. Stem may get lighter going down, with netting that can vary from amazingly profound to all but nonexistent. Stem skin bruises brownish. Yellowish-white cap flesh & yellower stem flesh DNS. Pores also fade to orange-red with age. A southern and midatlantic species that has been recently found in the Northeast.

Science Information: It took whole genome testing to confirm this belongs in Lanmaoa.

Edibility: Edibility unknown.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

  • NH4OH (Ammonia): Cap surface turns yellowish olive. Cap flesh turns bluish gay.
  • KOH: Cap surface turns golden yellow to pale amber. Cap flesh turns orange-buff.
  • FeSO4 (Iron Salts): Cap surface turns olive-gray. Cap flesh turns bluish gray.

Links:

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff 0 Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians 0 North American Boletes 102 97

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