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Located in mixed hardwood/conifer, soil/duff;
Fruit body small, sparingly branched, from shared stem;
Branches dull yellowish white, round/somewhat flattened, dry, smooth, bald;
Stem whitish, smooth, bald;
Spore print white;
Spores subfusiform, smooth, hyaline.

Located in soil at base of hardwood tree trunk, in moist shady woods;
Attachment to substrate via thick mycelial base;
Fruit body subglobose, smooth, upper portion with brown spot-like scales over pale yellowish background, KOH orangish/red on left side, yellowish brown on right side;
Outer skin thin, staining pinkish when cut;
Basal portion smooth, without scales, off white/dirty brown, tapering to reduced buried pseudostem;
Gleba dark brownish/blackish, marbled;
Spores globose, yellowish/brown in KOH, densely spiny.

Caloboletus inedulis in Anne Arundel county Maryland in soil and mowed grass under a swamp-type oak (oval leaf with tiny spines at the end of veins, see photo #1) near a parking lot.

Cap is pale brown, split at edges, probably from dry conditions. Pores dull olive yellow, staining immediately. stipe thick, often tapered toward bottom, and pinched at the base. Stipe surface with red, brown, or indistinct reticulation in mid section, some yellow reticulation near top. Whitish or yellowish basal mycelium.

When sectioned or at splits, context is whitish or creamy yellow. context beneath cap (and sometimes the stipe) are slowly pink. Context of majority of cap and stipe is quickly blue becoming gray then brown. Note very dark blue stain on cross-section of stipe. Context is unusually solid and bug free. Very mild mushroomy smell, maybe with a bit of sourness. Mild taste. Bitterness not noted.

Located at ground level of well rotted oak stump;
Fruit body tough, thick at attachment, orangish/brownish, olive overtones, semicircular, vertically stacked, felt-like, covered with densely matted woolly hairs, margin wavy, paler;
Fertile surface tan/cinnamon, 5-10 pores per mm;
Context hard, "shiny" cinnamon-brown, faintly zonate, thin dark brown layers separated by lighter color bands, KOH black;
Tube layer distinctly stratified, woody, paler than context;
Spores subglobose, hyaline, smooth.

Located in the well rotted bottom end of fallen tree;
Field photograph was poor quality due to heavy overhead shade, tree stump cavity, and very small fruiting mass.
Cap whitish, almost translucent, convex, laterally attached to substrate, minute hairs, margin in-rolled;
Gills whitish/faintly yellowish, subdecurrent, short gills present, subdistant;
Stem whitish, rudimentary, off center, finely hairy at base;
Spores globose to subglobose, hyaline, guttulate, smooth.

Apologies for poor photo. Found in highway median strip at height of rush hour, trying to get the photo in between traffic lights. The patch is maybe 10 ft long by 1 ft wide. The map pin was placed manually and is quite accurate.