Leccinum cyaneobasileucum

A medium sized Leccinum associated with Birch.  The cap is brown, dry and felty. Pores are cream, bruising brown, and the stem is cream with whitish or pale brown woolly scales.  When cut and then bruised the stipe slowly stains blue and the flesh of the cap soon turns pinkish. 

Very similar to the Brown Birch Bolete but with white or pale brown woolly scales on the stipe, which stains blue when cut and then bruised.

stipe stains blue  

Photograph a fresh specimen from top down and in side view, and underneath to show pores and full length of stipe.  Note habitat and substrate. Check for staining or colour change on cap, pores and stem base when cut and then bruised. 

Under birch

Autumn.