pulk's Identifications

Tentative id, also comparing to Boletus subvelutipes, but pores seem too dark, has gradient color on stipe, being darker at base, bruising blue immediately and without effort. The stipe bruised from the prints of my fingers by just gently picking. Cap margin is a bright cream color giving it a lit appearance on the otherwise red-ish brown cap. Pore/tube surface is a deep, almost black scarlet. The pores/tubes are very small and tight, giving the pore surface an almost solid appearance. On a mound of soil alongside a Russula near pines, maples, some oak and other tree genera in mixed forest. I think it is a rather "alluring" bolete.

Substrate: on leaves of Quercus rubra/Quercus velutina.

Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.

Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher

Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.

abundant

Substrate: in soil and leaf litter beside trail

Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.

Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher

Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.