Boletus miniato-pallescens Smith & Thiers Cap 8-20cm across, convex to plane; brick red fading to apricot buff or orange-yellow; smooth, glabrous to minutely fibrillose, dry, soon with surface cracked. Tubes adnate to subdecurrent; bright yellow. Pores very small (l-2 per mm); chrome yellow to wax yellow, often flushed orange-red with age, bruising greenish blue. Stem 60-140 x 10-40mm, tapered below or equal; bright yellow above, flushed orange to brick red below; strongly pruinose when young, more or less persistently. Flesh pale yellow, turning blue when cut. Odor pleasant. Taste pleasant. Spores subfusiform, (11)12-16(17) x 4-5µ. Deposit olive-brown. Habitat usually under oak. Probably quite common. Found in eastern North America, west to Michigan. Season July-September. Edibility not known.