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  2. ›Basidiomycete Fungi
  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
  4. ›Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies
  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›boletes and allies
  7. ›boletes
  8. ›Suillelloideae
  9. ›Suillellus
Liver Bolete
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Liver Bolete

Suillellus amygdalinus

Suillellus amygdalinus (formerly Boletus amygdalinus) is a fungus of the bolete family found in western North America. The fruit bodies, or mushrooms, are characterized by their thick, red to brown caps, red pores, and the strong bluing reaction observed when the mushroom tissue is injured or cut. The cap can reach diameters of up to 10 cm (3.9 in) and the stipe 9 cm (3.5 in) long by 3 cm (1.2 in) thick at maturity. This mushroom has been found in manzanita...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 430157.