A real beauty, Boletus pulchriceps is very mysterious and under-studied, hardly anyone knows about it here in Arizona. To have the luck to find it in such a nice condition was amazing.
Description: cap is usually faint pink or deeper-colored, convex, with no noticeable structure; stem is a vivid yellow and enlarged in the middle (tapering upwards), with very faint vertical striations; pore surface is the same color as the stem, and does not stain when bruised or handled.
On deciduous tree in riparian area, heavily trafficked and disturbed area streamside in Fossil
not this .. dried out rosy conch
Small, semicircular, pinkish coral bracket fungus; pinkish to cream-colored, wrinkled, and veined beneath. Grows on dead logs and stumps of deciduous trees. Summer–fall. Cap semicircular with a wavy margin; pinkish coral, turning salmon to cream-colored; texture finely hairy. Underside pinkish to cream-colored; porelike, with radiating, wrinkled, and veined, branched folds. Stalk not present. Spore print white. Spores magnified are elliptical, smooth, colorless.