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Pallid Bolete
A pale grayish-brown bolete of eastern oak forests with yellowish to olive pores and a smooth, non-reticulate whitish stem. Its pores and flesh bruise blue erratically, or not at all. It was moved from Boletus to Imleria in 2020. It is edible, though the taste is sometimes mildly soapy or bitterish.
Edible (Horn's Boletes; Wikipedia). MushroomExpert warns against identifying it by bluing or color changes alone. A bolete that turns instantly blackish blue when cut is not this species, and some fast-bluing boletes such as Boletus sensibilis cause gastrointestinal upset.
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