The Painted Boletinus. Edible.
Figure 313.—Boletinus pictus.
Pictus, painted. This plant seems to delight in damp pine woods, but I have found it only occasionally about Chillicothe, under beech trees. It is readily recognized by the red fibrillose tomentum which covers the entire plant when young. As the plant expands the reddish tomentum is broken into scales of the same color, revealing the yellowish color of the pileus beneath. The flesh is compact, yellow, often changing to a dull pinkish or reddish tint where wounded.
The tube-surface is at first pale yellow, but becomes darker with age, often changing to pinkish, with a brown tinge where bruised.
The stem is solid, equal, and covered with a cottony layer of mycelium-threads like the pileus, though often paler. The spores are ochraceous, 15–18×6–8µ. The plants are two to four inches broad, and one and a half to three inches high. Found from July to October.
Boletinus cavipes. Kalchb.
Hollow-Stemmed Boletinus. Edible.