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Leccinum fallax
Whitish stem w/dark brown scabers swells to a bulb at the base. Stem flesh may have greenish-blue stains at base. White-buff pores bruise reddish brown. Likes conifers.
Read moreLeccinum fibrillosum
Cap- and upper-stem flesh stain pink, then darken to dull purplish. Thick pepper-on-salt stem. Buff pores age to olive-brown, & stain brown. Likes conifers.
Read moreLeccinum glutinopallens
Slimy cap is reddish-buff in the center & white by the edge. Soft white cap flesh stains pinkish, often w/blue-green by the tubes.
Read moreLeccinum griseonigrum
Bluish black or brown cap son ages to tan (yellow, cinnamon, or brown), & cracks or fissures w/age. Salt & pepper stem often crooked by base.
Read moreLeccinum holopus (“Ghost Bolete”)
Grows in wetlands. White cap darkens w/age. White/buff/brown pores may stain yellow or brown. Firm whitish stem w/scabers that age from white to dark, & sometimes green stains by base.
Read moreLeccinum insigne (placeholder for birch/aspen mates)
Brown-on-white scaber stem. White pores age to yellow-brown & DNS. White cap flesh stains purple-gray & resolves black – no red stage. Likes aspen & birch.
Read moreLeccinum insolens
Whitish pores age yellower & stain yellow-brown. White flesh stains pinkish- to purple-gray, resolving to a darker, browner shade.
Read moreLeccinum insolens var. brunneo-maculatum
Whitish pores age yellower & stain yellow-brown. White flesh stains purple-brown. White to pink-buff cap bruises dull brown.
Read moreLeccinum longicurvipes
Viscid & almost-corrugated cap is a shade of brown (red-, orange-, yellow- or plain). Stem often long & curved. Flesh often stains pinkish red, but not always.
Read moreLeccinum luteum
Cap ages from pale yellow to olive-brown & from wrinkled to pitted to fissured. Likes hornbeam & ironwood. Flesh stains pinkish gray, resolving to brown.
Read moreLeccinum potteri
Tawny- to brick-orange cap w/white patches from its baby veil. Likes large-toothed aspen & oak.
Read moreLeccinum pseudoinsigne
Yellow to red-orange, sometimes viscid cap. When young, white cap flesh stains reddish cinnamon & resolves to bluish brown-gray. Mature flesh stains straight violet-gray. Likes birch & aspen.
Read moreLeccinum roseoscabrum
Pink scabers & ridges, esp. lower down, on an oft-curved white stem. Scabers darken w/age or handling. Oft-wrinkled, oft-spotted, dark- to chestnut-brown cap fades w/age.
Read moreLeccinum rugosiceps (“Wrinkled Bolete”)
Deeply wrinkled cap cracks w/age. Tiny yellow pores may have blue-green stains but either DNS or bruise a slow yellow-brown. Flesh slowly stains red, esp. where cap meets stem.