Fuzzy cap and stem. Soil in burn area under ponderosa pine.
Collected by Beth Bilodeau.
DNA Sequenced
A real beauty, Boletus pulchriceps is very mysterious and under-studied, hardly anyone knows about it here in Arizona. To have the luck to find it in such a nice condition was amazing.
Description: cap is usually faint pink or deeper-colored, convex, with no noticeable structure; stem is a vivid yellow and enlarged in the middle (tapering upwards), with very faint vertical striations; pore surface is the same color as the stem, and does not stain when bruised or handled.
Small, semicircular, pinkish coral bracket fungus; pinkish to cream-colored, wrinkled, and veined beneath. Grows on dead logs and stumps of deciduous trees. Summer–fall. Cap semicircular with a wavy margin; pinkish coral, turning salmon to cream-colored; texture finely hairy. Underside pinkish to cream-colored; porelike, with radiating, wrinkled, and veined, branched folds. Stalk not present. Spore print white. Spores magnified are elliptical, smooth, colorless.