Description
Genus: Boletus
Species: patrioticus
- Species: communis
Common Name: “Patriotic Bolete”
Tells: Cap context: red zone by skin, white (or pale yellow) flesh, turns blue. Get it? Also tastes sour. Blue-bruising yellow pores age darker. Oft-pink upper stem.
Other Information: Velvety tan-olive baby-cap soon ages to red (from pinkish- to brick- or dark-), often w/browner olive- or tarnished-brass tints by the edge. Stem typically rosy pink-red high & olive low on a yellowish ground color, but can vary greatly. Whitish to pale yellow mycelium. A typically Southern species, DNA-confirmed specimens have recently been found as far north as New Jersey.
Edibility: Good.
CHEMICAL TESTS:
- NH4OH (Ammonia): Cap surface turns olive-amber. Cap flesh turns pale orange-yellow.
- KOH: Cap surface turns olive-brown. Cap flesh turns pale orange-yellow.
- FeSO4 (Iron Salts): Cap surface turns olive-gray. Cap flesh turns pale orange-yellow.
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Found just one in Richmond Hill, GA today, 2nd of July 2020.
I was trying to get a confirmation on the patriot in alabama.
This is a relatively new species. Confirmed finds stretch down the east coast, over to Louisiana, and along the Gulf of Mexico into eastern Texas. We do not have a 100% confirmed ID in either Alabama or Mississippi, but it would be astonishing if patrioticus isn’t there to be found.