nearly yellowish; bald or nearly so; in age the gluten sometimes drying brownish. pore surface: white when very young, becoming dull yellow; not bruising; pores becoming angular, about - per mm; tubes to cm deep. stem: - cm long; - mm thick; more or less equal above a somewhat tapered base; sticky when fresh...
american collector at this point in time, it is probably not possible to identify most leccinum species with scientific certainty. current research, supported by dna evidence, points to the probability that the methods we have traditionally used to identify leccinum species--namely, observation of the mushrooms...