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Heimioporus betula
Cap 4-16 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat in age; dry; bald or felty, sometimes nearly velvety; variable in color, ranging from yellow to pale gray to yellow brown or olive brown; frequently yellow along the margin. Pore surface. Bright yellow, becoming olive yellow with age; not bruising, or bruising brighter yellow or orangish (rarely brownish); Pores 2-3 round pores per mm; tubes to 1.5 cm deep Flesh: Yellow (light yellow, becoming golden yellow when cut), not staining blue on exposure. Stem: 6-15 cm long; 1-2.5 cm. thick; more or less equal, sometimes tapered towards the top or (more frequently, in my experience) the bottom; prominently and coarsely reticulate with a yellow reticulum that becomes brownish with age or on handling; bright yellow, discoloring brownish in age; bruising orangish yellow; solid; basal mycelium yellow.
Range: Widely distributed in eastern North America. Summer and fall. Mycorrhizal with hardwoods, especially oaks; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; often growing in moss.
Formerly Boletus ornatipes
Spotted on Jul 13, 2015
Submitted on Jul 13, 2015
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