Growing below mostly pine (some hardwoods) in a wooded area in a public park in Floyd County, GA.
Flesh yellow. Pores red-orange. Cap is a velvety reddish-brown. All parts stain when cut. Flavor is mild.
Chemical analysis:
Iron salts-->Gray on cap. Changes/erases blue (stained) areas of flesh and pores back to yellow.
KOH-->Dark red to black on cap. Peach on flesh and pores.
Ammonia-->Orange-yellow on cap.
Tentative id, also comparing to Boletus subvelutipes, but pores seem too dark, has gradient color on stipe, being darker at base, bruising blue immediately and without effort. The stipe bruised from the prints of my fingers by just gently picking. Cap margin is a bright cream color giving it a lit appearance on the otherwise red-ish brown cap. Pore/tube surface is a deep, almost black scarlet. The pores/tubes are very small and tight, giving the pore surface an almost solid appearance. On a mound of soil alongside a Russula near pines, maples, some oak and other tree genera in mixed forest. I think it is a rather "alluring" bolete.
Not positive on this ID, pore surface not as red as a subvelutipes, but not sure what else to call it. Pore surface stained almost black, and flesh blue but but slowly
Flesh stained hard and fast
Substrate: on leaves of Quercus rubra/Quercus velutina.
Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.
Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher
Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.
abundant
Substrate: in soil and leaf litter beside trail
Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4200 ft.
Collectors: D. Newman & L. Gallagher
Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.
Collected during the 2022 Knoxville Summer Fungus Foray lead by Fungus With Friends Knoxville (https://www.facebook.com/groups/935144930439065)
Collected on a foray with the New River Valley Mushroom Club.
Collected on a foray with the New River Valley Mushroom Club
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Canon EOS 6D + Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x + Yongnuo YN-14EX TTL LED Macro Ring Flash
1/180 sec, f/8.0, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on May 15, 2019.
Many of these growing on Campsis radicans in a flood plain near a dense mixed forest edge. These are definitely new to me.
Tiny. 1-1.5cm tall each. Tapered stem to the base with a small attachment point. On conifer sticks and cones. Reddish stem. Gills appear to be attached.
Growing on the inside of a bark slab on the ground, wood unknown.