Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ceriomyces bicolor (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 1 : 152. 1909
Boletus bicolor Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24 : 78. 1872.
Boletus rubeus Frost, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2 : 102. 1874. (Type from Vermont.)
Boletus squamulosus EUis, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 77. 1876. (Type from New Jersey.) Not B.
squanzulosus Rostk. Boletus dichrous ElHs, Bull. Torrey Club 6 : 109. 1876.
Pileus somewhat irregular, firm, convex, 5-10 cm. broad ; surface dry, glabrous or finely tomentose or squamulose, at times rimose-areolate with age, apple-red or purplishred, often fading or becoming stained with yellow when old ; margin irregular, sometimes upturned : context flavous, changing slowly to blue at times when wounded, then back to flavous, taste mild ; tubes short, adnate, nearly plane, flavous when young, becoming ochraceous with age, changing slowly to blue or greenish-blue when wounded, mouths angular, of medium size, 2-3 to a mm.: spores fusiform, smooth, pale ochraceous-brown, 10-12 X 4-5//: stipe nearly equal, firm, solid, dark, usually yellow and sometimes slightly reticulated at the top, changing to greenish-blue when bruised, smooth, nearly glabrous, showing dark dots under a lens, solid, flavous within, changing slowly to blue, 4-10 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. thick.
Type locality: Sandlake, New York. Habitat : Open woods.
Distribution : New England to North Carolina and west to Ohio and Kentucky.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY