You are likely to be right. I trust your ID skill in that group are much better than mine. Moreover, B. subvelutipes is a highly variable species, according to B-R-B. Unfortunately, I don’t get enough exposure to these red and brown pored boletes where I foray…

B. subvelutipes group.
But I’m not to sure about it being B. discolor, (which I would consider in that group). I just saw lots of discolor in all stages of growth (sorry, didn’t take any pictures,) they have a lot of orange on in the cap when young, discoloring olive-brown but keeping an orange margin.

subvelutipes can go orange-brown or even olive-brown in age.

I am glad you saw humor where none was intended. Thanks! Allow me to use your quoute as my rebuttal of an old claim that I have as much humor as Anton Chigurh. :-)

At this point, I am no more sophisticated than calling almost anything with red or dark red-brown pores to be B. subvelutipes, so thanks for your sense of humor! I agree with you that it looks too light – especially the pores. Maybe I am just ticked off that I have not found more bicolor so far this year. Thanks for your comment.

thanks for commenting. You could be right about this one being a representative of the B. subvelutipes group, which can have a highly variable appearance. I guess the cap and stipe colors, as well as the bluing action on the outside, are favoring such an assignment, but the color of the pore mouths still make me wonder — just not red enough, though the pore surface was also yellow all around the cap margin, which is typical of B. subvelutipes.

Just for the record, could you state why this cannot me an older, possibly slightly dried B. subvelutipes? I have seen the pores start very dark brown – a rich red-black-brown. …and then they can get very red, but can’t they also darken back to an orange-brown? This one has a light cap – perhaps also environmental?