Leccinum insigne Smith, Thiers, & Watling Cap 4-16cm across, round to broadly convex becoming flatter; color varies from bright orange to reddish brown or brown, often paler and duller in age; dry, smooth or minutely hairy and sometimes scaly, then pitted in age. Tubes adnate or decurrent; whitish then olive-gray bruising pinkish brown. Pores whitish bruising yellow to olive-brown. Stem 60-150 x 10-25mm, solid, swollen at the base; whitish when young, but covered with numerous small projecting scales which turn from reddish brown to blackish in age, base often bruises blue; tough, fibrous. Flesh thick, soft; white turning violet-gray or dingy brown when cut. Spores spindle-shaped to ellipsoid, smooth, 11-18 x 4-6µ. Deposit brownish or yellowish-brown. Habitat scattered or in groups under aspen or birch in woods and along wood edges. Often common and sometimes abundant. Found widely distributed in North America. Season June-September. Edible-good.