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8 Records
Status
Found solitary, scattered, or in groups on lawns, in open woodlands, and along roadsides.
Description
Cap: Small, rose-red; in age, pinkish-red with yellow flesh showing through cracks; convex, dry, velvety; flesh yellow, stains blue-green. Pores: Yellow becoming greenish or olive-yellow in age; stain dark blue. Stalk: Pale yellow at top to darker yellow at base often with reddish pruinescence; dry (J. Solem, pers. comm.).
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Hortiboletus campestris in Somerset Co., Maryland (8/9/2008).
Media by
Lance Biechele.
A Hortiboletus campestris (fruiting body removed from substrate) in Howard Co., Maryland (7/25/2017).
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Joanne Solem.
Hortiboletus campestris (cap) in Howard Co., Maryland (7/18/2011).
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Joanne Solem.
Hortiboletus campestris spores collectedin Howard Co., Maryland (7/25/2017).
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Robert Solem.
Spores collected from a Hortiboletus campestris specimen in Howard Co., Maryland (7/18/2011).
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Robert Solem.