Boletus pseudopeckii Smith & Thiers Cap 4-10cm across, convex then flattened; rosy to brick red but soon with gray-brown overtones; dry to finely tomentose. Tubes slightly depressed around stem, l0mm deep; pale to bright yellow, staining blue when injured. Pores 2-3 per mm; yellow bruising blue. Stem 40-120 x 10-30mm, cylindric to clavate, sometimes deep in soil; yellow overall, but with reddish pink or purple tones at base and apex; dry, very finely reticulate over upper half. Flesh thick, solid; pale yellow, staining bluish when cut; FeS04 bleaches away the blue color. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores fusoid, smooth, 10-14 x 3.5-4.5µ. Deposit olive-brown. Habitat usually under beech. Rather uncommon but often misidentified. Found in upper northeastern North America. Season August-September. Edibility not known. Comment Often recorded in error as Boletus speciosus Frost or Boletus peckii Frost in Pk. and looking very much like the European Boletus appendiculatus Schaeff. ex Fr. Boletus peckii has a distinctly bitter taste, while Boletus speciosus is more uniformly red, especially when mature, and the flesh has a grayish reaction with FeS04.