Identifying Your Bolete
8.2
CALCIPORUS PIPERATOIDES
Chalciporus piperatoides
Frequency
Very rare
Habitat Area
Under conifers or broadleaf trees.
Cap
Yellow-brown, orange-brown or brown.
Margin
With a narrow band of brown sterile tissue.
Tubes
Adnate, depressed near the stalk.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface rusty to cinnamon-brown staining blue to bluish black when bruised; pores irregular, up to 1,5 mm wide .
Stalk
Nearly equal.
Stalk Feature
Reddish-brown, punctate to fibrous-striate colored like the cap or paler.
Flesh
Pepper flavour. Flesh pale yellow staining blue above the tubes.
Basal Mycelium
Yellow.
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The literature from Québec tells us under oaks, but these photos were taken in a 35 year old White Spruce plantation. Like Peppery Bolete, the fruitbodies can be dehydrated and used as a condiment.
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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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