Rose-capped bolete, two angles
Boletaceae Family
Angles captured. Three frames — a pink cap and a bright yellow bracket-like surface.
Morphology
One fruitbody photographed from two sides that read at first as two organisms. From above: a rose-pink cap with a paler rim. From below: a bright yellow, finely poroid surface with the pink cap edge visible around it, on a red-brown stipe. The pores identify the underside frame as the same cap flipped, not a bracket.
Habitat & substrate
On and beside decaying wood.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
Rose cap over yellow pores is the recurring profile of this stretch of walks — compare TM0142 and spore-print cards 3 and 13, both taken from rose-capped, yellow-pored collections. Whether those represent one abundant species or two remains open.
To confirm this identification
Match against cards 3 and 13 once the print assignments are settled; note pore colour and any bluing on the next fresh one.
Notes
Recorded as one entry on the photographer's account of what was in front of him. Substantially revised. First published as a pink cap and a yellow bracket, possibly one fruiting body. Half right: it is one fruitbody, and it is a bolete — the bracket was its own pore surface.
Found at Massasoit Rd area, Worcester, MA on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at 18:41. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
Others in this group
Large orange-brown bolete, uprootedBoletaceae · Jul 31Low–moderate
Bolete with boletinoid poresBoletinellus, Suillus or Phylloporus · Jul 31Moderate
Olive-brown boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Low–moderate
Rosy cap with golden gill-platescf. Phylloporus · Aug 6Moderate
Dark chestnut boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Moderate
Wine-red boleteBoletaceae · Aug 6Moderate
Orange-capped boletesBoletaceae · Aug 6Low–moderate
Red-capped bolete with yellow poresBoletaceae · Aug 8Moderate