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Key 5.4
Boletes
| Is the fruiting body flesh and/or tubes staining blue?
Yes |
Does it not stain blue; may stain brown, red, or dingy
yellow?
Yes |
| Are the tubes contorted; mouth closed; grows in the
West?
Yes |
Are the tubes vertical; mouths
open?....................
Yes |
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You have a Gastroboletus
turbinatus |
| Are the tube mouths red to orange-red?
Yes |
The tubes mouths are not red?.......
...................
Yes |
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You have a B. eastwoodie,
satanus, or
frostii |
| Is the stalk reticulate, yellow, sometimes flushed red?
Yes |
Is the stalk smooth? .............
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Yes |
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You have a B. calops
Var. frustosus |
| Is the cap brown with cracks showing pink flesh?
Yes |
Are the caps variously colored without cracks?
Yes |
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You have a B.
chrysenteron
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| Are the tube mouths bright yellow? ....................
................. .............
.......................
Yes |
Are the tube mouths white to greenish-yellow or gray;
slowly bruising light blue to blue-green?
Yes |
| Are the tube mouths white to gray; cap gray to buff?
Yes |
Are the tube mouths light greenish-yellow?
Yes |
| Is the cap red-brown, viscid; grows in the East?
Yes |
Is the cap red-brown, dry; grows in the West?
Yes |
| Is the stalk reticulate 1/3 its length of more?
Yes |
Is the stalk with coarse hairs to smooth, but not
reticulate?
Yes |
| Is the stalk thin, nearly equal with deep shaggy to
ornamental reticulation?
Yes |
Is the stalk bulbous with shallow white reticulation? ...........
.......... .................
Yes |
| Is the growing on a puffball? .........
......................
Yes |
Is it growing other than on a
puffball?
Yes |
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You have a B. parasiticus
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| Are the tube mouths red-brown; taste peppery?
Yes |
Are the tube mouths another color? .......................
Yes |
| Are the cap and stalk striking pink; chrome-yellow at
base?
Yes |
Is the cap brown, reddish-brown, or brown with white
spots?
Yes |
| Is the stalk red-brown and wooly; grows in the West?
Yes |
Is the cap brown and hairless; grows on the ground?
Yes |
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