Observation 71426: Heimioporus betula (Schwein.) E. Horak (Site ID) (Aureoboletus betula)
When: 2011-07-12
Collection location: Chesterfield Co., Virginia, USA [Click for map]
Who: Brandon (bsearcey)
No specimen available
Notes:
Closest I came to keying it out was Boletellus russelli, but the pictures do not really match. The cap is really throwing me off.
Images
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 5.39 | 1 | (Gerhard) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 8.31 | 2 | (bsearcey,Christian Schwarz) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.67 | 55.52% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 4.52 | 1 | (convallaria) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 4.88 | 1 | (Christian Schwarz) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.24 | 74.75% | |||||||
I think you have it. I don’t think Aurora mentions Heimioporus. Seaching H. betula brings up the pics that would have sold me. I did try searching for Boletellus betula and Austroboletus betula, but did not have any hits with those search terms. Anyway, good to know.