Identifying Your Bolete
1.4
SNOW WHITE BOLETE, GHOST BOLETE
Leccinum holopus, var. americanum
Frequency
Frequent
Habitat
The literature associates it with birches in humid environments. In the boreal forest we met and photographed it in Jack Pine stands on well-drained sand. Sphagnum mosses promote the length of the stalk.
Cap
Mostly white at a young age, darker when mature.
Margin
Even or with a narrow sterile band of tissue.
Tubes
Adnate, depressed near the stipe.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface grayish to dingy brown with age, sometime with blue-greenish spots, immutable or staining brownish when bruised.
Pores circular 2-3 per mm.
Stalk
Equal, frequently very long.
Stalk Feature
Scabers whitish when young, darker in age.
Flesh
White immutable or partly reddening mainly in the stipe, sometimes bluing near the base of the stalk.
Basal Mycelium
White.
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See also the description given in point 5.11 in the category of rough stemmed boletes.
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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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