The spores are pale, rusty-brown color.
Found in woods and open places, from July to October.
Boletus subtomentosus. L.
The Yellow-Cracked Boletus. Edible.
Figure 284.—Boletus subtomentosus. One-half natural size.
Subtomentosus, slightly downy. The pileus is from three to six inches broad, convex, plane; yellowish-brown, olive or subdued tan color; cuticle soft and dry, with a fine pubescence; the cracks in the surface become yellow. The flesh is creamy white in mature specimens, changing to blue, and at length leaden, on being bruised.
The tube surface is yellow or yellowish green, becoming bluish when bruised; opening of tubes large and angular.
The stem is stout, yellowish, minutely roughened with scurvy dots or faintly striped with brown. The spores are a rusty-brown.