Where’s Wildlife · Mushroom Field Guide
Strobilomyces sp.
Bold black scales on a pale cap.
Old Man of the Woods. Select the photo to browse the gallery. Photographs © Where’s Wildlife.
NORTH AMERICAN GENUS
Fruiting varies with local weather and habitat.
Bold black scales on a pale cap
Dark, shaggy stem
A woodland bolete with pores rather than gills
Compare form, texture and growing surfaces in the photographs below.
The distinctive black scales and shaggy stem support Strobilomyces. These two views remain identified to genus; the quiz uses the common group name.
North American species are difficult to separate from photographs. Spore details and sometimes DNA are needed; no particular species name is assigned here.
Woodlands. Summer and fall.
Forms mycorrhizal partnerships with trees.
Dark, shaggy stem
A woodland bolete with pores rather than gills
The distinctive black scales and shaggy stem support Strobilomyces. These two views remain identified to genus; the quiz uses the common group name.
The exact locality of these uploads has not yet been recorded.
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Photographs © Where’s Wildlife.
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