COMMON NAME: Shaggy-stalked Bolete.

CAP: (3-9 cm) wide, convex, becoming broadly convex; surface smooth, sticky or slimy when moist, dark red, reddish or orange, sometimes with a yellow margin, becoming bright yellow to yellow in age; flesh greenish yellow to orange-yellow, not blueing when cut or bruised; odor and taste not distinctive.

PORE SURFACE: yellow to greenish yellow, not staining blue or brown when bruised; pores circular, 1 mm wide.

STALK: (10-20 cm) long, (6-20 mm) thick, nearly equal, solid, yellow to dark red or dull red, coarsely reticulate with raised yellow ribs that may redden in age, often with white mycelium at the base; partial veil and ring absent.

SPORE PRINT: dark olive to olive-brown.

MICROSCOPIC FEATURES: spores 15-19 x 6-10 μm; narrowly elliptic, ornamented with a loose reticulum and scattered minute pits, typically with a distinct apical pore, pale brown.

FRUITING: solitary to scattered on the ground in mixed oak-pine and beech forests; July-September; occasional.

EDIBILITY: edible.

COMMENTS: also known as Boletellus betula.

From Mushrooms of Northeastern North America Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, & David W. Fischer  Copright © 1997 Syracuse University, ISBN 0-8156-0388-6