Family: Boletaceae
Boletus luridiformis
Sensu AK
Red Velvet Bolete
KEY ID FEATURES
- Seems to prefer mountain hemlock and spruce, both in the woods and along trails.
- Medium-to-large fruitbodies with a striking color palette.
- Yellow flesh that quickly stains blue-to-blackish-blue. Simply handling the fuitbody can be enough to evoke a staining reaction.
- Cap convex (wavy in aged specimens), medium-to-large, dry and velvety, color mottled and quite variable - olives, reds and browns – changing in age.
- Pores are deep red-to-orange-red, becoming more orangish in age. Easily stain blue.
- Stem large, thick without reticulation, pointed at base. Yellow accented by oranges and reds. Stains blue.
NUTRITIONAL STRATEGY: Mycorrhizal
SPORE PRINT: Olive-brown
EDIBILITY: Likely Toxic
SYNONYM: Boletus erythropus
COLLECTIONS
- COLLECTION ID: AFFF-043-14
- LOCATION: Primrose Campground, Seward, AK
- DATE: 26-Aug-14
- NOTES: Cap 19.5 cm across, velvety, olive toned on disc, deep red velvet elsewhere. Pores orangish-red, staining blue-black. stipe red at apex, dingy olive-brown below. Flesh bright yellow, quickly staining blue. Red in stipe base. Stipe 13- cm long, 3.5 cm wide. equal with a rounded base. no odor, taste mild. Under mountain hemlock and spruce.
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- COLLECTION ID: AFFF-049-14
- LOCATION: Winner Creek Trail, Girdwood, AK
- DATE: 26-Aug-14
- NOTES: None.
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- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-150-14
- LOCATION: Winner Creek Trail, Girdwood, AK
- DATE: 02-Sep-14
- NOTES: Cap 53-144 mm across, dry, velvety, becoming glabrous in age. With an olive tone when young, becoming reddish, with darker disc. Pores deep red to orangish-red, becoming more orangish in age, staining blackish-blue. Stipe enlarged downward with a pointed base, Smooth to finely punctate at apex, velvety below.. Flesh yellow, often with red in stipe base; quickly staining deep blue, fading to blackish-blue, to dingy gray over time. Taste mild, mild earthy odor. On edges in mountain hemlock dominated woods with some spruce.
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- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-151-14
- LOCATION: Coeur D'Alene Campground, Palmer Creek Road
- DATE: 02-Sep-14
- NOTES: Cap 100-138 mm across, rounded-convex, disc smooth, some velvet on margin. Deep red to red-brown in color. Bright red pores. Blue-black staining on pores / cap / stipe. Yellow flesh quickly staining deep blue, fading to gray. Red flesh in stipe base. Growing on roadside under mountain hemlock and spruce.
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