Identifying Your Bolete
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HORTON’S BOLETE
Boletus hortonii
Frequency
Very rare
Habitat Area
In mixed woods, often with oaks, beeches and Hemlock.
Catherine Miklis: « Picked from a section where there are beeches, maples, red oaks, butternut, heart hickory, a few large-toothed poplars, late cherries, Pennsylvania maples, American lime trees and I am certainly forgetting a few others ».
Cap
Conspicuously corrugated and pitted, chesnut, ochre to reddish brown.
Margin
Even.
Tubes
Adnate.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface yellow when young, olive-yellow in age, sometimes slowly staining blue when bruised; pores circular to angular, 2-3 per mm.
Stalk
Equal to enlarged toward the base.
Stalk Feature
Yellow or tan, occasionally with reddish tones near the base.
Flesh
Whitish, immutable, sometimes bluing slowly and weakly when cut or not staining at all.
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This photo was taken in the summer of 2020 by Ms. Katherine Miklis on her property south of Montreal.
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