Boletus melleoluteus

Yellow pores age grayish & stain dark olive-brown. Stem slowly stains red from handling. Pale yellow flesh slowly blues, esp. by tubes.

Description

Genus: Boletus

  • Genus 2: pulveroboletus

Species: melleoluteus

Common Name:

Tells: Yellow pores age grayish & stain dark olive-brown. Stem slowly stains red from handling. Pale yellow flesh slowly blues, esp. by tubes.

Other Information: Bright yellow cap ages toward brownish yellow. Cap-colored-or-paler stem is often curved at the base.

Edibility: Unknown.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

  • NH4OH (Ammonia): Cap surface turns dark brown (cap edge pale blue-green).
  • KOH: No data.
  • FeSO4 (Iron Salts): No data.

Links:

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff 0 Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians 0 North American Boletes 128

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