Identifying Your Bolete
5.8
LECCINUM ALBELLUM
Leccinum albellum
Frequency
Rare
Habitat Area
Under hardwoods, especially oaks.
Fruit body
Pale and stocky, with a campanulate cap (folded down).
Cap
Whitish, grey, pale tan, sometimes slightly pitted, often rimose-aerolate in age.
Margin
Even.
Tubes
Adnate, depressed near the stipe.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface whitish to pale tan, immutable; pores angular, less than 1 mm wide.
Stalk
Nearly equal to enlarging toward the base.
Stalk Feature
Olive-buff, with tiny white scabers that darken in age.
Flesh
White, immutable.
Chemical reactions
On the flesh, the main reactions are blackish with phenol and orange with formalin.
For the cap and the stipe, black with the phenol and light brown on the stipe with the formalin.
On the tubes, brown with KOH and NaOH, black with FeSO4 and grayish with formalin.
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