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BAY BOLETE

Identifying Your Bolete
8.6

BAY BOLETE

Xerocomus badius, Imleria badia, Boletus badius
Frequency 
Frequent
Medium
Size
Habitat Area
In mixed coniferous stands, often on stumps or decaying trunks on the ground.
Cap
Reddish-brown, chesnut-brown or yellow-brown, olive tinted in age.
Margin
Even or with a narrow band of sterile tissue.
Tubes
Adnate, depressed near the stalk at maturity.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pale yellow becoming greenish yellow in age, staining blue when bruised; pores circular to angular, 1-2 per mm.
Stalk
Equal to enlarged toward the base.
Stalk Feature
Concolorous with the cap and streaked with darker tones.
Flesh
Immutable or staining pale blue or red when cut.
Basal Mycelium
Chemical reactions
FLESH: pale beige with KOH, NaOH and NH4OH; gray with FeSO4; blackish purplish with phenol and no change with formalin. CAP-STIPE: towards orange beige with KOH; towards orange beige on the stipe and black on the cap with NaOH; to gray with FeSO4; discoloration with NH4OH; black with phenol; towards brown with formalin. TUBES: towards dark brown with KOH, NaOH and NH4OH; towards black with FeSO4, phenol and formalin.
Comments 
Some authors classify it as good one, while others do not recommend it. Bay Bolete is also described at 6.28 which some pictures differ from this page.
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