Orange-capped boletes
Boletaceae Family
Angles captured. Four in-situ frames plus one held in the hand. Two further frames were deleted as motion-blurred.
Morphology
Two or more fruitbodies. Cap 5–7 cm, bright orange to apricot, smooth and slightly greasy-looking, convex. Stipe pale cream to buff, smooth, fairly slender. Pore surface not clearly shown.
Habitat & substrate
Oak litter and pine needles on a slope.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
Bright orange caps with pale stipes suggest Leccinum (which would show dark scabers) or Suillus. Nothing here separates them.
To confirm this identification
The stipe surface. Dark tufted scabers = Leccinum; sticky glandular dots = Suillus.
Found at Leominster State Forest, Leominster, MA on Thursday, 6 August 2026 at 11:52. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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Large orange-brown bolete, uprootedBoletaceae · Jul 31Low–moderate
Bolete with boletinoid poresSuillus or Phylloporus · Jul 31Moderate
Olive-brown boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Low–moderate
Dark chestnut boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Moderate
Wine-red boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Moderate
Red-capped bolete with yellow poresBoletaceae · Aug 8Moderate
Yellow-brown boleteBoletaceae · Aug 8Low–moderate
Red-brown bolete against a logBoletaceae · Aug 8Low