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Boletes
| Is the spore print black; cap and stalk covered with
long, shaggy gray-black hairs?
Yes |
Are the tubes straight, vertically arranged, mouths
open? ..........
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Yes |
| Are the tubes radially arranged in rows, most notably
near the stalk?
Yes |
Are the tubes not radial, mouths
often round or angular?
Yes |
| Is the spore print wine-red to reddish-brown; cap
usually dry to moist?
Yes |
Is the spore print cinnamon, olive-brown to brown; cap
usually viscid to slimy?
Yes |
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You have a Strobilomces
floccopus |
| Is the spore print pink; mouths of tubes white, then
pink in age; stalk reticulate; taste extremely bitter?
Yes |
Are the mouths of tubes white but not pink in age;
bruises brown? ................
Yes |
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You have a Tylopilus felleus |
| Is the spore print yellow-brown to olive or buff; stalk
with conspicuous dark brown to black scabers?
Yes |
Is the stalk without scabers? ...............
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Yes |
| Is the spore print yellow? ..............
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Yes |
Is the spore print olive to yellow-brown?
Yes |
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