Identifying Your Bolete
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ATKINGSON’S BOLETE
Boletus atkinsonii
Frequency
Rare
Habitat Area
Under hardwood deciduous trees, rarely under conifers, sometimes on rotten stumps.
Cap
Velvety cap, subtle and cracked when at maturity; dimpled, wrinkled at a young age; brown to yellowish brown.
Margin
Margin even with a narrow band of sterile tissue.
Tubes
Adnate, slightly depressed near the stalk.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface white when young, soon yellow-ochreceous, immutable; pores circular to angular, 1-3 per mm, tubes 0,5-2,3 cm deep.
Stalk
Equal to enlarged toward the base, sometimes bulbous.
Stalk Feature
Stipe with a fine white or brown reticulatum towards the apex, on a whitish to pale brownish ground; fine reticulations towards the top of the stipe and more pronounced towards the bottom.
Flesh
White, immutable.
Basal Mycelium
White.
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The Atkingson's Bolete and the Boletus variipes differ from others by their velvety, subtomentose and cracked cap at maturity.
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