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Red-mouth Bolete
Small bolete growing on the ground in a deciduous forest. The stipe was reddish with some brown streaks. The cap was orange and had some tan around the margin. The stem, flesh, and pores immediately bruised a dramatic blue when I knocked it over.
''Boletus subvelutipes'', commonly known as the red-mouth bolete, is a bolete fungus in the Boletaceae family. It is found in Asia and North America, where it fruits on the ground in a mycorrhizal association with both deciduous and coniferous trees. Its fruit bodies have a brown to reddish-brown cap, bright yellow cap flesh, and a stem covered by furfuraceous to punctate ornamentation and dark red hairs at the base. Its flesh instantly stains blue when cut, but slowly fades to white. The fruit.. more
