Boletus flammans Dick & Snell Cap 4-12cm across, convex, sometimes irregular; deep red to red-brown, becoming deep rosy red to brick red with age, bruising blue; dry, subtomentose, viscid when wet. Tubes depressed around stem, 8-12mm deep; pale yellow. Pores small; bright red to carmine, blue when bruised. Stem 65-80 x 10-15mm, equal; with bright red reticulations on upper half, brownish red to yellowish below; smooth or longitudinally ridged below. Flesh pale yellow, rapidly blue when cut. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores subfusiform, 10-13 x 3.5-5µ. Deposit olive-brown. Habitat under conifers. Found from Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania. Season July-September. Edibility not known- not advised.