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

synonyms: Pallid Bolete
Boletus pallidus Mushroom
Ref No: 7289
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location: North America
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
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 pallidus Pk.Pallid Bolete Cap 4-15cm across, broadly convex; pale cream-buff to pale leather-colored with age; dull, dry when young, can be slightly viscid when wet. Tubes adnate to stem or slightly depressed; pale yellow then olive. Pores pallid yellowish, not changing color on bruising. Stem 50-120 x 8-30mm, equal or clavate; pallid to yellowish at apex and often flushed reddish at base; smooth. Flesh dirty white. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores subfusiform, 9-15 x 3-4.5µ. Deposit olive-brown. Habitat often gregarious, even caespitose, under oak on sandy soil. Common. Found in eastern North America Season July-September. Edible.

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Charlotte Caplan Caplan (United States) - 05 August 2009

I'm sure you've heard this before, but around our neck of the woods (Western North Carolina) B. pallidus has pores that turn blue when bruised. It's a mild greenish blue, not intense. Michael Kuo (mushroomexpert.com) comments: "Does the pore surface bruise blue? Maybe, maybe not...Don't rely heavily on color changes from bruising or exposure to air for your identification decisions with this mushroom".
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