Boletus separans (“Lilac Bolete”)

Variable cap (buff to purplish-brown) usually has lilac tones & is often wrinkled or pitted. White-netted cap-colored stem.

SKU: Xanthoconium separans Categories: 1. Found in Alabama, 1. Found in Connecticut, 1. Found in Northern Illinois, 2. Found in Kansas, 2. Found in New Jersey, 3. Cap Tastes Nutty or Sweet, 3. Found in Louisiana, 3. Found in Michigan, 3. Found on Long Island (New York), 4. Found in Ohio, 4. Found in Pennsylvania, 4a. Found in S.W. Pennsylvania, 5. Found in North Carolina, 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 SIZE FILTERS, CAP TASTE FILTERS, CAP TEXTURE FILTERS, Cap Texture is: 1- Dry & Smooth (Normal), Cap Texture is: 3- Wrinkled, Pitted or Corrugated, Coniferous ("Needle-y") Trees, Deciduous (Leafy) Trees, Edibility: 5- Choice, 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, My Mushroom's Cap is >6” Across, My Mushroom's Cap is >8” Across, PORE COLOR FILTERS, PORE SIZE FILTERS, PORE STAINING FILTERS, Pores Do Not Stain within 30 seconds, Primary Cap Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Cap Color is: 2- Yellow to Orange, 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: 2 - Yellow to Gold, Primary Pore Color is: 4 - Some Shade of Brown, Primary Stem Color is: 1- White, Buff, or Light Gray, Primary Stem Color is: 2- Yellow to Orange, Primary Stem Color is: 4- Some Shade of Brown, Spore Print is 2- Yellow to Yellow-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), Stem: Netting is WHITE, ZONE 1- the NORTHEAST, ZONE 2- the MIDWEST, ZONE 5 - the SOUTH

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Description

Name in North American Boletes: Xanthoconium separans

Genus: Boletus

Genus 2: Xanthoconium

Species: separans

Species 2: pseudoseparans

Common Name: “Lilac Bolete”

Tells: Variable cap (buff to purplish-brown) usually has lilac tones & is often wrinkled or pitted. White-netted cap-colored stem.

Other Information: Whitish pores age through yellow toward brown, & DNS. White cap flesh DNS, & may taste sweet/nutty.

Science Notes: DNA testing has moved this mushroom from Xanthoconium back into Boletus. It’s actually a close relative of edulis.

Edibility: Choice.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

NH4OH (Ammonia): Lilac parts of the cap skin and stem skin both turn aquamarine to deep blue. Brown parts of the cap skin turn brick- to blood-red.
KOH: Lilac parts of the cap skin and stem skin both turn aquamarine, dingy slate-green, bright green, or dark green. Brown parts of the cap skin turn rusty brown.
FeSO4 (Iron Salts): No data.

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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Sarah

8 years 3 months ago

I am having a hard time finding the differneces between Boletus seperans and bolete Pallidus. They appear very similar to me – what is the difference?

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Roy Halling

8 years 1 month ago

Pallidus has a hymenophore that stains blue.

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