Tylopilus violatinctus (“Violet Bitter Bolete”)

Bitter white cap flesh. Violet cap skin ages through pink to tan, bruising violet. Pinkish, yellow-staining stem browns w/age, apex staying white. Often buggy.

SKU: Tylopilus violatinctus Categories: 1. Cap Tastes Bitter, Acrid, Astringent, or Peppery, 1. Found in Connecticut, 1. Found in Northern Illinois, 2. Found in Kansas, 2. Found in New Jersey, 3. Found in Michigan, 3. Found on Long Island (New York), 4. Found in Mississippi, 4. Found in Ohio, 4. Found in Pennsylvania, 4a. Found in S.W. Pennsylvania, 5. Found in North Carolina, 5. Found in Ontario, 5. Found in W. Va. or the Central Appalachians, 6. Found in Eastern Texas, 6. Found in Quebec, CAP COLOR FILTERS, CAP FLESH COLOR FILTERS, Cap Flesh Does Not Stain with 30 seconds, Cap Flesh is White, CAP FLESH STAINING FILTERS, Cap Flesh Stains a Color Other than Blue, Cap Flesh Stains Blue, CAP SIZE FILTERS, CAP TASTE FILTERS, CAP TEXTURE FILTERS, Cap Texture is: 1- Dry & Smooth (Normal), Deciduous (Leafy) Trees, Edibility: 2-Bitter, FILTER SET #1: REGION, FILTER SET #2: CAP FEATURES, FILTER SET #3: PORE FEATURES, FILTER SET #4: STEM FEATURES, FILTER SET #5: CAP FLESH (CONTEXT) FEATURES, FILTER SET #6: SPORE PRINT, FILTER SET #7: HABITAT FILTERS, FILTER SET #8: EDIBILITY, My Mushroom is Mature & Its Pores are Tiny, My Mushroom's Cap is >0.1" Across, My Mushroom's Cap is >4” Across, PORE COLOR FILTERS, PORE SIZE FILTERS, PORE STAINING FILTERS, Pores Do Not Stain within 30 seconds, Pores Stain Other than Blue, Primary Cap Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Cap Color is: 3- Red, Pink, Purple, or Orange, Primary Cap Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Primary Pore Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Pore Color is: 3 - Red, Pink, Purple or Orange, Primary Pore Color is: 4 - Some Shade of Brown, Primary Stem Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Stem Color is: 3- Red, Pink, Purple, or Orange, Primary Stem Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Spore Print is 3- Pink-, Red-, Purple-, or Cinnamon-Brown, Spore Print is 4- Plain Old Brown, STEM COLOR FILTERS, STEM DECORATION/ TEXTURE FILTERS, Stem Is Bulbous, STEM SIZE FILTERS, Stem: 1- Has No Significant Ornaments, Stem: 5- Is Netted (Reticulated), ZONE 1- the NORTHEAST, ZONE 2- the MIDWEST, ZONE 5 - the SOUTH

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Genus: Tylopilus

Species: violatinctus

Common Name: “Violet Bitter Bolete”

Tells: Bitter white cap flesh. Violet cap skin ages through pink to tan, bruising violet. Pinkish, yellow-staining stem browns w/age, apex staying white. Often buggy.

Other Information: White pores age through pink & then flesh colors, ending a deep cocoa brown. Pores typically DNS, but may turn brownish-olive. Cap flesh DNS, or slowly turns a slate color. T. plumbeoviolaceus has a deeper purple stem, a cap that does not bruise, and is notoriously bug resistant. T. rubrobrunneus has a deeper purple to the cap, tends to be a stouter fellow, and has a stem that darkens with handling. The three can be hard to tell apart as they age, at which point the pore color will be your biggest tell. Rubrobrunneus pores age to brownish pink, while violatinctus ends up deep brown, and plumbeoviolaceus remains more of a pale pink.

Edibility: Too bitter to eat but useful for unique approaches like cocktail bitters. It isn’t toxic; just absurdly bitter.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

NH4OH (Ammonia): Cap surface turns yellow to yellow-brown. Cap flesh does not react.
KOH: Cap surface turns pale, dingy yellow to dull amber. Cap flesh does not react.
FeSO4 (Iron Salts): Cap surface has no reaction or turns faint olive. Cap flesh does not react.

Links:

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff

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Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians

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North American Boletes

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BENA

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