Leccinum manzanitae Thiers
Mycologia 63: 266. 1971.

Common Name: Manzanita Bolete

• Pileus

  Cap 5-18 cm broad, rounded, becoming convex, finally broadly convex to nearly plane; surface pitted with appressed fibrils, dark red to reddish-brown, viscid when moist; margin incurved when young with fragments of sterile tissue; flesh thick, white, darkening when cut, especially in young specimens; odor and taste mild.

• Hymenophore

  Pores fine; pallid to light olive, darker in age, staining dark-brown when bruised.

• Stipe

  Stipe 9-17 cm long, 2-4 cm thick, club-shaped to ventricose, white with small, black scales (scabers), sometimes bruising blue at the base.

• Spores

  Spores 13-17.5 x 4-5 microns, smooth, spindle-shaped. Spore print brown.

• Habitat

  Scattered to gregarious under madrone and manzanita from fall to mid-winter.

• Edibility

  Edible, but many consider it best dried.

• Comments

  Leccinum manzanitae is recognized by its large size, viscid reddish-brown, innately fibrillose cap and the darkening of cap and stipe tissue, a character best seen in young specimens.

• Other Descriptions and Photos
• Anna Moore: Leccinum manzanitae (CP)
• Taylor F. Lockwood: Leccinum manzanitae (CP)
• Ron Pastorino: Leccinum manzanitae
• Hugh Smith: Leccinum manzanitae (CP)
• Hugh Smith: Leccinum manzanitae (CP)
• Boletes of California: Leccinum manzanitae var. manzanitae (D & CP)
• Boletes of California: Leccinum manzanitae var. angustisporum (D)
• Mushroom Observer: Leccinum manzanitae (CP)
• Arora (1986): p. 539 (D), plate 145 (CP)
• Arora (1991): p. 174 (D & CP)
• Bessette et al. (2000): p. 208 (D), p. 326 (CP)
• Thiers (1975): p. 144 (D)



(D=Description; I=Illustration; P=Photo; CP=Color Photo)