Rosy cap with golden gill-plates
cf. Phylloporus Genus
Angles captured. Six frames — two from above and four low profiles.
Morphology
Cap 6–8 cm, dull rose to salmon-pink, dry and matte, plane and becoming shallowly funnel-shaped, margin faintly wavy. The underside a striking contrast — golden-ochre gill-plates, thick, well-spaced, strongly decurrent and cross-veined. Stipe short, stout, pale orange-buff, dry.
Habitat & substrate
Oak litter on a slope beside mossy boulders, under closed hardwood canopy.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
The first call was Lactarius, and the underside argues against it. The plates are thick, widely spaced, strongly decurrent and cross-veined — not the crowded brittle gills of a milkcap — and no latex shows in any frame. A dry rosy-suede cap over golden cross-veined plates in oak litter is the profile of Phylloporus rhodoxanthus in the broad sense, the gilled bolete. Orange-gilled milkcaps (the deliciosus group) are conifer associates with crowded gills and coloured latex.
To confirm this identification
Cut a gill-plate. Latex ends it: milkcaps bleed, Phylloporus does not. Check the flesh for slow bluing.
Notes
Corrected. Logged as Lactarius on cap colour and decurrent gills. At full resolution the plates are golden, spaced and cross-veined — the gilled-bolete profile — and nothing bleeds.
Found at Elm St area, Leominster, MA on Thursday, 6 August 2026 at 10:45. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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