Identifying Your Bolete
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PARASITIC BOLETE
Xerocomus parasiticus, Boletus parasiticus
Frequency
Rare
Habitat Area
Parasitize the Common Earthbal under mixed hardwoods and conifers.
Cap
Tawny-olive or brownish gray.
Margin
Margin incurved when young, even lather.
Tubes
Adnate, depressed near the stalk.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface yellowish to olive-brown, immutable or sometimes staining ochraceous or reddish when bruised; pores circular to angular, 1-2 mm wide.
Stalk
Nearly equal, usually curved at the base to meet the base of the scleroderma fruit body.
Stalk Feature
Partial veil and annulus absent. Brownish yellow, adorned with brownish fibrils.
Flesh
Whitish to pale lemon-yellow, immutable.
Basal Mycelium
White.
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Parasitic bolete is considered edible, but not recommended. The fruitbodies apear in early fall.
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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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