shroomersue Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 These were growing prolifically in a hardwood forest in southwestern ontario, some quite large at maturity 6 inch caps with light brown cap turning browner and underside pores also turning more brown. Blueing of cap, pores, stipe. Brown olive spore print. Taste mild, smell a bit funky. The pores could be peeled away easily from yellowish flesh. I need a bit of help to i.d. but i'll take a stab at it. Boletus vermiculosoides ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted August 3, 2019 Report Share Posted August 3, 2019 Boletus vermiculosoides would be my first guess here. There's also B. vermiculosus --another brown-pored bolete-- but some mycologists suspect this may just be a slightly darker version of B. vermiculosoides. A third such species may be B. subgraveolens. This one is reported to have a cracked cap (in hot weather) and a strong odor, so maybe it applies here. https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/product/boletus-subgraveolens/ Most of my collections of vermiculosus/vermiculosoides have red flesh in the bottom 1/4-1/3 of the stipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shroomersue Posted August 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 Thank you Dave. And the sample went into the composter and phew! Some odour there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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