Identifying Your Bolete
Habitat Area
Under oaks. Boletus vermiculosoides is considered to be very rare, growing under oaks. However, we found it in Basse-Mauricie, Quebec, under oaks, but also in mixed coniferous forests, where oaks are absent.
Cap
Dull colored fruitbodies. Cap yellowish at first changing to brownish yellow and then brown with age.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface brown when young, paler with age, staining blackish-blue when bruised. Pores very small, circular to angular, 2-3 per mm. For Boletus vermiculosoides, the pore surface is dark brown when young and paler in age. For Boletus vermiculosus, pore surface is typically brown when young, decoming reddish brown to brownish orange in age.
Stalk Feature
Non reticulate stalk, yellowish at the apex, covered by a brownish pruinose toward the base.
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