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Boletus chrysenteron
This interesting bolete seems to start off looking like dark balls of velvet with a yellow stipe which has a red-stained base ( pics #5 &6). They develop into this irregular shaped fruiting bodies with a greyish-green cracked outer "skin". The splits expose pink stained pore tubes. The under surface shows angular pores and is a pale yellow. A sturdy stipe is the same colour as the pore surface.
Growing in large numbers under pines. Have had minimal rainfall.
This bolete looked like an over-ripe splitting canteloupe ! I am not able to ID this bolete. The closest match I could find were B.chrysenteron and B.cisalpinus. My thanks to argybee for confirming ID.
Wonderful find Leuba,beautiful craklé :-) the red detail is perfect captured,congrats and thanks for sharimg
Wow what an interesting bolete. Ugly and beautiful in one package. The crazy surface and the hidden orange colour are great. Congrats on 700 !!