Large brown bolete
Boletaceae Family
Angles captured. Four frames including two close on the cap surface.
Morphology
Cap 10–12 cm, warm brown, dry and finely velvety, broadly convex. Stipe thick and pale brown. A rounded brown fruitbody in the first frame is the same mushroom seen before it expanded.
Habitat & substrate
Leaf litter under hardwood.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
A large brown bolete with a velvety cap. The size and the cap texture are the useful characters.
To confirm this identification
Pore colour and whether the flesh changes on cutting.
Notes
The first frame was initially read as a separate puffball; it is this mushroom while still button-round.
Found at Massasoit Rd area, Worcester, MA on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at 18:47. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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