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Austroboletus gracilis.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Austroboletus gracilis Mushroom
Ref No: 7104
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Austroboletus gracilis2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7105
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
spore colour: Rusty brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Austroboletus gracilis (Pk,) Wolfe syn. Porphyrellus gracilis (Pk.) Singer Cap 3-10cm across, convex to broadly convex; reddish chestnut brown to cinnamon brown; dry, granulose becoming cracked. Tubes up to 2 cm deep, deeply depressed around the stalk, uneven; white to flesh-colored then pinkish brown. Pores 1-2 per mm; white to pinkish brown. Stem 60-150 x 4-l0mm, long, solid, slender, often curved; same color as cap or paler cinnamon tan, white within, base white; longitudinally lined, with a bloom or finely granulose. Flesh white or tinged reddish near cuticle. Odor not distinctive. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid, often punctate, 11-17 x 5-7µ. Deposit dark reddish brown. Habitat singly or scattered on the ground in woods under aspen, oak, pine, and hemlock. Found in northeastern North America, south to Georgia. Season June-October. Edibility not known, possibly good, but to be experimented with extreem caution.

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