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Tylopilus alboater
Dry, brownish black cap that was very smooth and velvety. Pores were white and bruised when marked. Stipe was brownish, but lighter in color towards the apex. Cap size was about 6 cm wide.
It was growing in moss in a deciduous forest with lots of oak.
''Tylopilus alboater'', commonly known as the black velvet bolete, is a bolete fungus in the Boletaceae family. The species is found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, and in eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. A mycorrhizal species, it grows solitarily, scattered, or in groups on the ground usually under deciduous trees, particularly oak, although it has been recorded from deciduous, coniferous, and mixed forests.
The fruit bodies have a black to grayish-brown.. more
