The flesh is sweet, nutty. Remove stems and tubes when old.
B. impoli´tus Fr.—unpolished. Pileus convex, dilated, flocculose, at length grained in lines, unpolished, tawny-brown. Flesh white or whitish, unchangeable, yellowish under the cuticle. Tubes free, their mouths minute, yellow. Stem stout, subbulbous, even, pubescent, pale-yellow, sometimes with a reddish zone near the top. Spores oval or fusiform, pale greenish-brown, 7.5–10×5µ.
Pileus 4–6 in. broad. Stem 2 in. long.
Oak woods. California, Harkness and Moore.
This species is recorded as edible and said to be among the most delicious. It is evidently rare in this country. According to Quelet the spores are ellipsoid, papillate, 15–18µ long. Peck, Boleti of the U.S.
Near Bartram’s Garden, West Philadelphia, Pa., 1885. Thin mixed woods. McIlvaine.
That this species is edible and delicious is vouched for by many. I can add my own pleasurable experience.
B. deco´rus Frost.—decorous. Pileus convex, rather firm, tomentose, brownish tinged with red, the margin often darker colored. Flesh white, unchangeable. Tubes becoming free, yellow, changing to green where wounded. Stem bulbous, minutely branny, brownish-red, the bulb sometimes white and attenuated at the base. Spores 13×5µ.
Rich woods. New England, Frost. Peck, Boleti of the U.S.
Leominster, Mass., C.F. Nixon, August, 1897; Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa., August, 1897, McIlvaine.