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Red-mouth Bolete - Boletus subvelutipes Bolete with bright orange pores, a brownish-green cap with bloom, and a stipe that was yellow at the apex, red in the middle, and white towards the base. The flesh and pores bruised blue. Growing on the ground in a deciduous forest.<br />
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Red-mouth Bolete - Boletus subvelutipes

Bolete with bright orange pores, a brownish-green cap with bloom, and a stipe that was yellow at the apex, red in the middle, and white towards the base. The flesh and pores bruised blue. Growing on the ground in a deciduous forest.

Red-mouth Bolete - Boletus subvelutipes Bolete with bright orange pores, a brownish-green cap with bloom, and a stipe that was yellow at the apex, red in the middle, and white towards the base. The flesh and pores bruised blue. Growing on the ground in a deciduous forest.<br />
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https://vimeo.com/282900811 Boletus subvelutipes,Geotagged,Summer,United States,bolete,boletus,red-mouth bolete


    comments (2)

  1. Amazing colours! Posted 7 years ago
    1. Thanks! It was so bright! I have never seen bright orange pores before, and was stunned to find this one and then see the dramatic bruising reaction! Posted 7 years ago

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''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

Similar species: Boletales
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Aug 2, 2018. Captured Aug 2, 2018 11:07 in 5 East St, New Milford, CT 06776, USA.
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/4.0
  • 1/64s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm