Identifying Your Bolete
7.3
BOLETUS VARIIPES
Boletus variipes
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat Area
Under mixed hardwoods, also under pines and Hemlock.
Cap
Color variable, gray, yellowish or dark brown, often rimose at maturity.
Margin
Even.
Tubes
Adnate, depressed near the stalk, 1 -3 cm deep at maturity.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface white to olive-yellow at maturity, immutable; pores circular to angular, 1-2 per mm.
Stalk
Stipe a little pot-bellied or even or widened downwards.
Stalk Feature
Stipe usually with a conspicuous white or brown reticulum, but sometimes attenuated, on a brownish to dark brown background.
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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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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