OLDROSE BOLETE

Identifying Your Bolete

Flesh changes colour when cut to blue, pink, red or brown

Total, rapid colour change to blue

6.22

Boletus roseopurpureus

Frequency

Very rare

Size

Habitat Area

In mixed hardwoods stands, apparently associated with Red Oak.

Cap

Pinkish purple when fresh, darker purplish pink or red later, becoming grayish at maturity.

Margin

Becoming grayish in age, appendiculate.

Tubes

Adnate.

Pores and Pore Surface

Pore surface lemon-yellow becoming greenish olive at maturity, instantly greenish blue when bruised; pores circular, 1-2 per mm.

Stalk

Equal to tapered downward.

Stalk Feature

Yellow over most of the length and occasionnaly reddish at the base, reticulate nearly the entire length or at least in the upper two-thirds.

Flesh

Pale yellow, total, rapid staining blue when cut.

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