Identifying Your Bolete
8.10,5
ORNATE-STALKED BOLETE ? (brownish red)
Boletus sp.
Frequency
Rare
Habitat Area
Fruiting in a oak stand.
Cap
Cap ranging from greenish brown to bluish gray.
Margin
Enrolled at first, a little spread apart thereafter.
Tubes
Adnate.
Pores and Pore Surface
Gray at first, yellowing with age or bruising
Stalk
Equal.
Stalk Feature
Well visible reticulations, brownish in the center of the stipe to brownish red in length.
Flesh
Pale yellow in the cap, darker in the stipe.
Chemical reactions
FLESH: strong reaction to KOH, NaOH and NH4OH; no reaction with FeSO4; towards yellow with phenol and formalin. Ditto for the cap and the stipe.
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MushroomExpert mentions that the Gray Bolete can take reddish hues. However the chemical tests do not correspond to the Gray Bolete, but to those of the Ornate-stalked Bolete.
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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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