Rogers Mushrooms - Boletus auripes Mushroom


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Boletus auripes. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

Ref No: 7212
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location: North America

edibility: Edible

fungus colour: Brown

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Convex to shield shaped

stem type: Simple stem

spore colour: Olivaceous

habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Boletus auripes Pk. Cap 6-15cm across, convex to flattened; yellow-brown to gold when young, soon uniformly brown when old; dry, subtomentose to pruinose. Tubes bright yellow. Pores soon free of stem; bright yellow, unchanging. Stem 60-120 x 10-45mm, bulbous to equal; bright golden yellow; surface finely reticulate on upper half. Flesh firm; yellow. Odor pleasant. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid to subfusiform, 9.5-15 x 3.5-5ľ. Deposit ochre-brown. Habitat in mixed hardwood trees. Rather uncommon. Found in eastern North America. Season August-September. Edible. Comment The cap of this species changes color markedly from young to old and is strongly reminiscent of Xanthoconium (=Boletus) affine (Pk.) Singer, with which it might be better grouped.

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