Gyrodon merulioides
Ash-tree Bolete
Family Boletaceae
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Potentially Edible
Found under Ash trees, brown with wavy cap and off-centered stalk.
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Description
Cap: 5-12 cm (2-4 ¾") wide, slightly humped to deeply sunken. Margin incurved when young, in maturity spreading, wavy-edged and uplifted. Dry, yellow-brown to red-brown.
Flesh:Yellow sometimes turning bluish-green. Thin.
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Cap
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Tube Surface and Flesh
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Tubes/Pore surface: Very shallow, sometimes gill-like, with cross-veins radially arranged. Not separable, ranging from cap to stalk. Yellow to ochre, bruising dark blue.
Stalk: 2-4 cm (3/4-1 5/8") long and 0.5- 2.5 cm (1/4-1") thick. Off centered, solid. Brown, bruising red-brown.
Spore print: Olive-brown
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Habitat and Range
On the ground near ash and maples. East Canada to Florida, west to Michigan and Texas.
Season
June-October.
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Stalk
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