Specimen #9    Boletus pallidus, Pale Bolete

 Figure 1: Showing underside of cap and pores.

Figure 2: Showing a part of the stalk/stem.

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--    Name: Boletus pallidus

-          Common name: Pale Bolete

-          Family: Boletaceae

-          Collection Date: September 15, 2016

-          Habitat: decaying log

-          Location: South Chagrin Nature Reserve

-          Description: (fungi/mushroom) white “stem”, white underside, brown/grey top

-          Keying Guide: Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora

-          Intro Key p. 52-55 Fruiting body with cap and stalk, fleshy; underside of cap with spongy, often separable layer of tubes or pores; stalk more or less central; usually on ground but occasionally on wood……Boletes, p 488; 1B Not as above….2; 2B Not as above….3; 3B Not as above, stalk typically without scabbers….4; 4B Veil absent, or if present then not as above….5; 5B Veil absent (check young specimens is unsure), but cap sometimes fringed with sterile tissue….6; 6B Stalknot glandular-dotted (or very rarely so, but then with much darker spores)….7; 7B Pores not aas above, or if so then taste peppery….10; 10B Not with above features….11; 11B Not as above….12; 12B Spore print olive brown or brown, common and widespread….13; 13B Not with above combination of features, spores typically smooth, widespread….Boletus, p. 511; 1B Growing on ground or wood, not on earthballs….2; 2B Not as above (but taste may be bitter or sour)….3; 3A Growing on or near wood or in sawdust (especially coniferous)….4; 4BNot as above….6; 6B Not as above….7; 7B Found in eastern North America (east of the Rockies, also southern Arizona)*….42; 42B Pore surface white to yellow, olive, grayish, etc. when fresh (but sometimes brown in age)….49; 49A Cap white or pallid, at least until old age….50; 50A Stalk white or whitish….B. pallidus