Red-brown bolete on the slope
Boletaceae Family
Angles captured. Six field frames from one point on the walk, plus four of the spore print.
Morphology
Cap 5–8 cm, red-brown to russet, dry and finely felted. Pore surface ochre. Stipe stout, brown, roughened.
Habitat & substrate
Litter and thin soil on a slope, mixed canopy.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
The print is mid-brown. A russet cap over ochre pores with a roughened stipe is a common enough combination that the print does not narrow it as much as it might.
To confirm this identification
Whether the flesh changes colour when cut, and a closer look at the stipe surface.
Notes
Spore print taken (card 12). Corrected. An earlier version pooled frames #4836–#4838 here as the same mushroom seen earlier on the walk. They are a different collection — a clustered, red-pored bolete at the trail edge an hour earlier, now TM0163 — and the pooling repeated this project's most common grouping error: one entry holding two unlike subjects.
Found at Coldbrook Rd area, Hubbardston, MA on Friday, 14 August 2026 at 11:17. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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Olive-brown boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Low–moderate
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Dark chestnut boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Moderate
Wine-red boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Moderate
Orange-capped boletesBoletaceae · Aug 6Low–moderate
Red-capped bolete with yellow poresBoletaceae · Aug 8Moderate