Common Scaber Stalk
(Leccinum scabrum)

Saber
Common Scaber Stalk
sculpture, acrylic paint
"Wildman"

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.

Common Scaber Stalk
Common Scaber Stalk
photo by "Wildman"

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

Common Scaber Stalk from Below
Common Scaber Stalk
from below
photo by "Wildman"

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.

Common Scaber Stalk, side view
Common Scaber Stalk
side view
photo by "Wildman"

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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