Common Scaber Stalk
(Leccinum scabrum)

This bolete has a dry, convex cap 1-5/8 to 4 inches across, sometimes sunken in the center, with white flesh, sometimes bruising slightly brown.

The whitish tubes, which become brown in age due to the brown spores, are attached to or deeply sunken around the stalk.

The stalk is 2-3/4 to 6 inches long, 1/4 to 5/8 inches thick, beige, club-shaped, covered with tiny, blackish scale-like scabers, typical of the genus Leccinum.

It grows under birch trees throughout North America in the summer and fall.

This is an excellent edible -- cook it the same way you'd cook other boletes.

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