Family: Boletaceae
Chalciporus piperatus
(Fries) Bataille
Peppery Bolete
Chalciporus piperatus | Quartz Creek Campground
KEY ID FEATURES
- Small pored fruitbodies growing solitary or scattered.
- Stem and cap usually the same shade of a myriad of lighter browns. Often with a tuft of electric yellow mycelium at the base.
- Pores distinctly cinnamon-to-rusty brown, nicely contrasting against the cap and stem when young.
- Peppery in taste, hence the name.
- Often found in vicinity of Boletus edulis and Amanita muscaria.
NUTRITIONAL STRATEGY: Mycorrhizal
SPORE PRINT: Olive-brown
EDIBILITY: Not recommended, edibility is not firmly established.
SYNONYM: Boletus piperatus
COLLECTIONS
- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-088-14
- LOCATION: Quartz Creek Campground
- DATE: 27-Aug-14
- NOTES: Cap 34-45 mm across, tacky, copper pores. Flesh yellowish-beige in cap, yellow in stipe (bright at base) with purplish above tubes. No odor, taste acrid. Growing with Amanita musacria under spruce and aspen.
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- COLLECTION ID: AKFF-103-14
- LOCATION: Quartz Creek Campground
- DATE: 27-Aug-14
- NOTES: Hugh specimen, 14 cm across, with Amanita musacria under spruce.
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